EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar-nominee Cynthia Erivo (Harriet) is to star in and produce a film based on the remarkable life of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a 19th Century African princess ‘gifted’ to Queen Victoria after she was orphaned and enslaved by a west African king.Erivo produces with her Edith’s Daughter partner Solome Williams, alongside SunnyMarch’s Leah Clarke and Adam Ackland, and Rienkje Attoh from So & So Productions.
Benedict Cumberbatch will executive-produce.Development is financed by BBC Film [which underwent a re-brand earlier this year and is now singular rather than Films].
Walter Dean Myers’ biography At Her Majesty’s Request has been optioned as source material.Born Omoba Aina, an Egbado princess of the Yoruba people, Aina was
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