Award-winning playwright and writer Tony Kushner has been brought aboard to help pull together a screenplay for a film based on August Wilson’s beloved play Fences. The project, which Denzel Washington will direct and hopefully star in with his Fences Broadway co-star on Viola Davis(schedules pending), is trying to get before the cameras as soon as possible in order to be ready for the big screen this year — in time for Academy Award consideration. Wilson did a rough draft of the screenplay, and Kushner and Washington are working on it now to be true to Wilson’s work. “They want to use everything Wilson has done,” said a source. “They want to use all of his words.”
Rumors are that Washington would like to have Michael B. Jordan join him and Davis in Fences, but there is no finished screenplay as yet and, as you can imagine, offers are pouring in for the Creed actor. Still, both are repped by WME. Kushner is repped for literary at CAA. Davis is repped by CAA. And Rudin? Uh, he reps himself pretty darn well
Tony Kushner Comes Aboard Denzel Washington's 'Fences' For Paramount
Rumors are that Washington would like to have Michael B. Jordan join him and Davis in Fences, but there is no finished screenplay as yet and, as you can imagine, offers are pouring in for the Creed actor. Still, both are repped by WME. Kushner is repped for literary at CAA. Davis is repped by CAA. And Rudin? Uh, he reps himself pretty darn well
Tony Kushner Comes Aboard Denzel Washington's 'Fences' For Paramount
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