The film will star singer Mary J. Blige who will play the role of the jazz legend in the midst of her relationship with assistant Clifton Henderson.
Written by Cynthia Mort, the movie has actually been put off for years and just in 2010, it was sold, financed, and started being shooting last year. It had been financed to the tune of $10 million, cast (Mary J. Blige & David Oyelowo in the starring roles), and was booked to start filming at the end of May 2011.
Well, It had to be delayed until October 2011, because, as you may recall, Mary J Blige later signed on to co-star in Rock Of Ages with Tom Cruise and the rest of that film's cast, which is currently shooting.
It makes sense I suppose. Blije and her people must have felt that starring in the bigger budgeted Hollywood Rock Of Ages with Tom Cruise was far more important to her burgeoning acting career, than starring in an independently-financed and produced movie based on Nina Simone's life whose box office potential was uncertain.
Though I tend to get a little worried about projects that at first are announced as sure-things, and then get pushed around for one reason or another, no matter how valid. So, I won't be too surprised if it's eventually announced that the project is dead, or if it gets postponed again for some other reason.
Another positive thing that this postponement means is that Ms Blige will have more time to prep for her performance as Nina Simone. The MSN report acknowledges this by stating that she plans to spend the summer "researching the life of late jazz and blues legend."
"I have a lot of YouTube [footage] of her to study her and I read about her and talked to different people about her... I need to become whoever she was and dig in... I got to get a piano coach and a dialect coach to play her. Acting is something that I'm testing and it's working. I don't think I'm gonna become Meryl Streep... but I'm going to do the stuff that people believe in me for,"
said Ms Blige.
Now we are just waiting, I hope this movie come this year like they said. I'm very excited about it!!!
References: Shadow and Act , eurweb
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