Samuel L. Jackson
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Veteran actor Samuel L Jackson and Tenet star John David Washington are set to lead the Netflix film The Piano Lesson, to be directed by Malcolm Washington.
According to the leisure web site Variety, The Piano Lesson is an on-screen adaptation of August Wilson’s 1987 play of the identical title. Jackson and Washington shall be reprising their roles from the extremely profitable Broadway revival of the play, which lately ended its run on the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
Set in 1936 Pittsburgh in the course of the aftermath of the Great Depression, The Piano Lesson follows the lives of the Charles household, a family led by Doaker Charles (Jackson), and an heirloom, the household piano, which is embellished with designs carved by an enslaved ancestor. Washington performs Boy Willie, Doaker’s nephew, a job Jackson originated within the 1987 manufacturing.
Virgil Williams has tailored the screenplay for the characteristic film. The solid additionally options actors Ray Fisher, Danielle Deadwyler, Michael Potts and Corey Hawkins. Fisher and Potts starred alongside Jackson and Washington within the stage manufacturing, directed by LaTanya Richardson Jackson.
The Piano Lesson is being produced by Denzel Washington and Todd Black. Executive producers are Constanza Romero, Jennifer Roth and Katia Washington.