Fantasia Barrino to Star in The Color Purple Movie Musical
We’ve got more casting news for The Color Purple! Fantasia Barrino is making her feature film debut in The Color Purple movie musical. The singer-songwriter is in final negotiations to play Celie, a role that she played on stage on Broadway in 2007 and for which she earned rave reviews. Barrino would join a previously reported cast of Taraji P. Henson, Corey Hawkins and H.E.R., and Peacemaker co-star Danielle Brooks has also joined the cast, playing the role of Sofia.
New Exhibition of Clothing Reveals Charlotte Brontë’s Sensual Side
A new exhibition at the Brontë Parsonage Museum is showcasing a different side of Charlote Brontë: her surprising penchant for colorful, fashionable, and even “sensual” clothing. The exhibition of Charlotte’s clothing opened this week at the Brontës’ home in Haworth, West Yorkshire. “My personal favourite is her pink wrapper, which is a really, really strange garment,” said Dr Eleanor Houghton, historian, writer, illustrator, and co-curator of the exhibition. “It was a sort of house coat with a matching cape. It’s hideous, pink, with little flowers on it, very bold, very bright and huge – very voluminous. It’s absolutely the opposite of anything you would ever associate with Charlotte Brontë.” The museum says that this exhibition is the first time the Jane Eyre author has ever been “celebrated through her clothes.” The exhibit of more than 20 pieces of Charlotte’s clothing and accessories will run until January 1st, 2023.
Scott Turow’s Best-Selling Novel Presumed Innocent to be Adapted into a Series on Apple TV+
Scott Turow’s best-selling novel Presumed Innocent is becoming a limited series on Apple TV+. The novel, which is described as “the story of a horrific murder that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorneys’ office when one of its own is suspected of the crime,” was previously made into a in 1990 starring Harrison Ford. Showrunner and executive producer David E. Kelly (Big Little Lies) says that the goal is to “reimagine” Presumed Innocent to explore “obsession, sex, politics, and the power and limits of love, as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.” Dustin Thomason, J.J. Abrams, and Ben Stephenson are also attached to the project as executive producers.
Queer Retellings Coming Out in 2022
There are so many queer retellings of classic stories coming out this year. Here’s a list of queer retellings coming our way in 2022.