Blitz Bazawule, who co-directed Beyoncé's recent Black Is King for Disney+, has been tapped to lend his talents to Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg's new movie musical version of The Color Purple. Deadline reports Winfrey and Spielberg were wowed by Bazawule's 2018 Ghana-set film The Burial of Kojo on Netflix. As previously announced, Winfrey, who played the role of Sofia in the 1985 film adaptation, and Sp…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AM on August 25, 2020