Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, Magnificent Seven) will direct and produce a film adaptation of the Tennessee Williams’ play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof based on the 2008 Broadway production featuring an all-Black cast.The Broadway producers Stephen C.
Byrd & Alia Jones-Harvey are also aboard the project.The 2008 staging made history with a sold out 19-week run as the first all African-American production of the Broadway classic as well as the biggest grossing play during that season.
Fuqua will produce the film via his production company, Fuqua Films, and Byrd & Jones-Harvey through Front Row Productions.Casting has not been announced.The 2008 Broadway production, directed by Debbie Allen, starred Terrence Howard in his Broadway debut alongside
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