‘The Color Purple’ Trailer: See Fantasia Barrino, Danielle Brooks And More In First Look At Movie Musical
etcanada.com“Sisters are forever.” The first trailer for “The Color Purple” presents the proclamation for viewers with their first look at the Blitz Bazawule-directed reimagining of the story made iconic in the 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, the 1985 Warner Bros.
Pictures film and the Tony Award-winning stage musical. Called a “revival” by producer Oprah Winfrey during the trailer’s presentation, the preview gives a brief look at how the film tells the powerful and heartbreaking story of Celie, a young Black woman living in the South from the early to mid-1900s, who finds strength in an extraordinary sisterhood and unbreakable bond. “The reason this moment is so important is because for as long as there is a need for self-discovery, self-empowerment, as long as there’s a need for victory in someone’s life, as long as there’s a need for people to know what it feels like to be loved up and to be made full and whole through somebody’s love, there will be a need for ‘The Color Purple’,” Winfrey told journalists.
Steven Spielberg and Quincy Jones serve as producers alongside Winfrey, a full-circle moment for the trio since Spielberg directed the film adaptation in which Winfrey made her film debut and Jones produced.
Fantasia Barrino makes her major motion picture debut by reprising the role of adult Celie, which she first portrayed in her Broadway debut in 2007 and won a Theatre World Award for.
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