The Color Purple: a film with a bold new vision

“It’s not the same movie Purple what your mother saw, but she will also like it”, promises the producer. Oprah Winfrey about a new film that reimagines and revitalizes the story while honoring what fans have always loved about the classic iterations.

Purplefrom an innovative artist and director Blitz Bazawula, is an inspiring portrait of the bonds of brotherhood and the triumph of the human spirit. With moving performances from a superb cast, an inspired cinematic experience leads to Celie, Shug, Sofia and other characters on a journey full of hope to discover their voice, find their own joy and be true to heart and mind.

It’s a tape Warner Bros. Pictures, products Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Scott Sanders and Quincy Jones, a film that is a bold new vision of the classic story of love and resistance, adapted from the beloved novel and musical Broadway.

Purple, a global phenomenon since its publication, selling millions of copies and inspiring several generations of readers; There is one reader in particular who was her biggest promoter Oprah Winfrey.

“I have no words to describe the role that Purple it has played out in my life since I first read the book in 1983—sitting in bed, all day—and then giving it to every human being I knew. The story has a solid foundation of spiritual and emotional strength for me, in every way,” Winfrey recalls.

Published in 1982, vol Alice Walkerbased on his life, he received Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for best fiction, in the United States. In 1985, Steven Spielberg brought it to the big screen with a shocking adaptation that earned eleven nominations for the Oscars and which she presented to the public for the first time Oprah Winfrey as an actress, along with another relatively new one, Whoopi Goldberg. In 2005, the musical premiered on Broadway; later won awards Tony and Grammy and went on to multiple national tours, worldwide productions and a second run in 2015.

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The beloved musical has now been reimagined for the big screen with Spielberg, Winfrey and Quincy Jones, all of whom were instrumental in the 1985 film, producing alongside Scott Sanders, who originally conceived the stage version, the third time Winfrey has fallen in love with the experience. from The Color Purple.

Synopsis

Separated from her sister Nettie (Halle Bailey) and her children, Celie (Fantasia Barrino, in her blockbuster debut and reprising her 2005 Broadway role) faces many difficulties in her life, including an abusive husband simply named Mister (Colman Domingo). With the support of singer Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson) and Sofia (Danielle Brooks, a Tony nominee for her role on Broadway), her doting stepdaughter, Celie ends up finding extraordinary strength in unbreakable bonds of a new kind. fraternities.

The film stars SAG Award winner and Tony Award nominee Oscar nominee (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”) Taraji P. Henson, reprising her Broadway role as Danielle Brooks (“The Color Purple,” and the series, Orange Is the New Black) , Tony nominee and Emmy winner Colman Domingo (“Rustin,” “Euphoria,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”), Tony nominee Corey Hawkins (“Six Degrees of Separation,” “In the Neighborhood”), Oscar and Grammy- winner HER (“Judas and the Black Messiah”), Grammy nominee Halle Bailey (“The Little Mermaid”), Oscar nominee Aunjanua Ellis-Taylor (“King Richard,” “Ray”) and Grammy winner Fantasia Barrino as Celie in her film debut. The legendary Louis Gossett, Jr. also stars. (“Roots”, “Defying Fate”), Phylicia Pearl Mpasi in her feature film debut, singer-songwriter Ciara and Oscar winner Jon Batiste (“Soul”), among others.

Purple color debuts in Latin America starting February 8, 2024.