Denzel's son Malcolm Washington directs John David and Sam Jackson in August Wilson "The Piano Lesson"

[Dr. Narcisse]

 

[KingofthePenguins]

Nicole Beharie for Berniece

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

Nicole Beharie for Berniece

Inspired.

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

Washington sees his responsibility as both Hollywood connector and Wilson custodian. He convinced Wolfe, 66, the renowned theater director, to helm the new film; and then worked with Romero to hire his friend Samuel L. Jackson and his son, John David Washington, to appear in the next Wilson film, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Piano Lesson” (1987), a 1930s saga about ghosts and a family heirloom that will be overseen by Barry Jenkins. For the rest of the Cycle, which will be shot out of order over the following years, directors and actors such as Ryan Coogler, Ava DuVernay and Laurence Fishburne are all “circling,” Washington says. Over the phone this fall, he compared this undertaking to a relay race, passing on the baton in hopes of winning new audiences for the classics that Wilson left behind. “Lord knows he couldn’t take them with him,” Washington says. “And thank God he did leave them. Now they’ve left them in my hands, and I put them in other people’s hands.”

 

[ThirdAct]

Denzel and Sam Jack doing a movie together is a long time coming

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

 

[Grifter]

Can't wait. Used to love watching this when a teacher would roll in a tv.

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

Can't wait. Used to love watching this when a teacher would roll in a tv.

Heh, all we watched were Malcolm X, The Color Purple or Native Son.

 

[Duke Dixon]

I read the play for an acting class in college. I remember liking it, and making my mom read it. I don't remember the story, but I still have the book.

I'll make sure to watch this when it comes out.

 

[Json]

All this black nepotism, unearned DEI in Hollywood!!

Should have had directed by Stallone and staring his daughters and Arnold’s son.

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

 

[mson]

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

Samuel Jackson is the

 

[Reggie]

These are the type of movies we need to be supporting cause it wasn't that long ago that we were bytching about not having all black movies and casts.