From the Pulitzer Prize-winning book to the Oscar-nominated film to the Tony Award-winning musical, the beloved story of Alice Walker. Purple color It has been translated into many media. Now, the musical directed by Blitz Bazaule has come alive on the big screen.
On Monday, Warner Bros. released the first trailer for the upcoming film ahead of its Christmas Day release later this year.
The trailer follows Celie (the younger version is played by Felicia Mpassi and the older version is played by Fantasia Barrino) after she is separated from her sister Nettie (Halle Bailey, Ciara). In the years to come, the film explores the ongoing struggles of Celie’s life as a black woman living in the American South in the early 1900s.
In a virtual Q&A ahead of the trailer’s release, producer Oprah Winfrey and director Bazaule discussed the making of the film and the influence of Walker’s story, which was first published as a novel in 1982.
“As long as people need to feel what it means to be loved… there will be a need Purple color” Winfrey said. “I believe that in the future this story will grow, not grow old.”
“It’s a classic, an icon,” she added. To be able to go in there with the visual audacity that Blizz had for this film and create this magical version, where we get inside Celie’s head, is amazing.
“I was like a spoiled director the whole time I was on set,” Bazaule said. “The level of talent, skill and brilliance was through the roof” while starring American Idol-Winning Barrino as Celie, the cast also includes Coleman Domingo, Taraji P. Features Henson, Daniel Brooks, HR, Corey Hawkins and Aunjanu Ellis.
With a screenplay by Marcus Gardley, the film features songs from the musical, including “Here I Am,” sampled in the trailer.
“The music is important,” Winfrey said. “This music emerges from the soul of the narrative. And when the people sing, they sing because they have nothing else to do but sing.
Steven Spielberg’s film musical It comes four decades after the acclaimed 1985 film, which starred Whoopi Goldberg, Winfrey, Danny Glover and Margaret Avery. Winfrey won an Oscar for the film. This time Spielberg returns to produce alongside Winfrey, Scott Sanders and Quincy Jones.
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