EXCLUSIVE: We hear that In the Heights star Corey Hawkins is getting back into business with Warner Bros. for their feature adaptation of Broadway musical The Color Purple based on the 1985 Steven Spielberg 11x Oscar-nominated movie.
The role which Hawkins is being buzzed to play is Harpo.We’ve been hearing for some time about Hawkins circling The Color Purple and that the studio was even testing actresses opposite him.Hawkins starred as Benny in Jon M.
Chu’s feature take of the Lin-Manuel Miranda Broadway award-winning musical In the Heights. As Deadline first told you, Black Is King, Ghana-born filmmaker Blitz Bazawule is set to direct The Color Purple.
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