[quote]Netflix is heading into production on a screen adaptation of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Viola Davis will star in the feature, along with Chadwick Boseman. Emmy winner Glynn Turman, Tony and Olivier nominee Colman Domingo, and Michael Potts round out the cast. Denzel Washington will produce the movie.
[quote]The story follows Ma Rainey, a famed blues singer, as she makes a record in a studio in 1920s Chicago, where tensions boil over between her, her white agent and producer and the bandmates.
[quote]George C. Wolfe will direct the movie that will begin shooting next month in Pittsburgh. Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who earned a Tony for his performance in Wilson's Seven Guitars, will adapt the play for the screen.