Tyler Perry will write, direct, and produce an adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s 1975 play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, according to Variety. It will be the first project for Perry’s 34th Street Films production company under Lionsgate; shooting is expected to begin in Atlanta this November.
Sep 3
2009
05:37 PM ET
Tyler Perry to adapt Ntozake Shange's 'For Colored Girls...' for the big screen
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this is an excellent drama. perry is too much of a lightweight director to treat this material well, i fear. i really, really hope i’m wrong.
I agree with you.
Knowing Tyler, he’ll turn it into a comedy. This material / “for colored girls” is not movie material…unless he turns it into a black girl check flick soap opera….like waiting to exhale….
Fancypants – the first thing I thought when I read this headline was “okay tyler, don’t mess this up!”. Oh boy. I really … nope can’t see it.
Is this the first thing he’s doing he hasn’t written himself? I say this because his direction is certainly nothing to write home about, but it’s his writing that is his real problem. Maybe a new author will make him less perfunctory.
Just realized he’s writing the adaptation. Never mind, this is done for.
If Oprah aint doing it, then it can’t be done….honest, what makes Tyler think he can take a 30 year old play, which is really outdated by today’s standards and modernize it?
it’s not outdated–its core messages resonate today; it’s just a compilation of monologues/poetry about the experiences/trials and tribulations of “colored” women. btw, based on what you just said, no one would be producing Shakespeare plays or anything written before 1980.
I think we should give him a chance. He’s multi-talented and I’m sure he understands the depth of what he’s attempting to do. I’m not going to count him out yet. Go for it Tyler!