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Tyler Perry sees the 'Rainbow'
By Adnan Tezer Sep 4, 2009, 21:21 GMT
Lionsgate has hired Tyler Perry to write, direct and produce an adaptation of the 1975 play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf."
According to Variety, Lionsgate announced Thursday that it had acquired worldwide distribution rights to the film, which will be the first project for Perry's 34th Street Films production company. Paul Hall ("Pride") is also producing.
Shooting begins in Atlanta in November, with Lionsgate planning a release next year.
The play is a series of 20 poems telling stories of love, abandonment, domestic abuse and other issues faced by black women.
"For Colored Girls," written by Ntozake Shange, was first performed in 1975; it was made into a 1982 made-for-T.V. film with Shange, Laurie Carlos, Trazana Beverly, Alfre Woodard and Lynn Whitfield for PBS' "American Playhouse."
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