Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I and plans to create a new screen adaptation of the musical produced by Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey's Temple Hill, according to Deadline. The last time The King and I took to the silver screen was in 1956. Produced by 20th Century Fox, the movie musical was directed by Walter Lang, penned by Ernest Lehman and starred Deborah Ke…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:03PM on February 12, 2021