Black Is King co-director Blitz Bazawule to helm big-screen version of The Color Purple musical

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Paramount Plus has announced that its upcoming live-action “The Fairly Oddparents: Fairly Odder” series will premiere March 31.Season 1 of “The Fairly Oddparents: Fairly Odder” will be made up of 13 episodes. The series follows Nickelodeon’s animated “The Fairly OddParents” program, which ran from 2001-2017 and focused on the adventures of Timmy Turner and his fairy godparents, Wanda and Cosmo, who magically granted wishes.The latest chapter is set to focus on Timmy’s cousin, Vivian “Viv” Turner (Audrey Grace Marshall), and her stepbrother, Roy Raskin (Tyler Wladis), as the two face life in Dimmsdale with the help of the fairy godparents.

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The Color Purple has found its director in Black Is King’s Blitz Bazawule.He’ll join Marcus Gardley, who’s writing the screenplay based on Alice Walker’s 1982 novel of the same name. The Color Purple, as we all know, depicts the lives of Black families and their relationships in early twentieth-century Georgia.

“The Color Purple” is heading back to the big screen in bold way.

Deadline, Oprah said of the upcoming movie: ‘We were all blown away by Blitz’s unique vision as a director and look forward to seeing how he brings the next evolution of this beloved story to life.’Bazawule was the brains behind Beyonce’s film Black Is King that aired on Disney Plus last month.The visual album was filmed over the course of a year, with Bazawule in the directing char. It’s based on songs from Beyonce’s album The Lion King: The Gift.

The Broadway musical The Color Purple is being turned into a movie and a director has been selected!

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Hot off of co-directing Beyoncé’s Disney+ visual album feature Black Is King, Ghana-born filmmaker Blitz Bazawule is set to direct Warner Bros. musical  film The Color Purple, based on the Tony-winning Broadway musical.I hear that the feature’s producers Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Scott Sanders, and Quincy Jones caught Bazawule’s movie The Burial Of Kojo on Netflix, and were wowed by his vibrant visual style.“We, were all blown away by Blitz’s unique vision as a director and look forward to seeing how he brings the next evolution of this beloved story to life,” Winfrey tells Deadline.