By Dave McNary Film Reporter MGM is developing a “Fiddler On The Roof” movie with “Hamilton” director Thomas Kail, who will direct and produce with Dan Jinks and Aaron Harnick The original “Fiddler on the Roof” opened on Broadway in 1964 and won nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book and Best Score of a Musical, Best Director and Best Choreographer.
Norman Jewison directed the 1971 film, which was nominated for eight Oscars and won three. “Fiddler” centers on Tevye, the father of five daughters who tries to maintain his Jewish religious and cultural traditions in 1906 amid an edict from the Tsar evicting the Jews from the small town of Anatevka.
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