EXCLUSIVE: Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Suicide Squad) is in talks to star in Two Butterflies, an Amazon drama based on an original idea and script by Evan Dodson, which will be directed by Strong Island‘s Yance Ford.Two Butterflies follows two estranged sisters who are torn apart by tragedy and forced to reunite when one sister must be transported to an Alzheimer’s facility.
Dodson became the youngest scribe ever to make the Black List of the year’s best unproduced screenplays when his script was selected in 2016.Davis and Julius Tennon will produce the upcoming film for JuVee Productions, with Rob Hardy for Rainforest Entertainment.Davis is an Oscar, Emmy and Tony winner best known for turns in films including Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fences, The Help and Doubt, as well as for the role of criminal defense attorney Annalise Keating in ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder.
The actress and producer has also appeared in films including The Unforgivable, Suicide Squad and its sequel The Suicide Squad, Troop Zero, Widows, Blackhat, Get on Up, Prisoners and Beautiful Creatures, among others.
Additional TV credits include Scandal and United States of Tara. Davis will next be seen in the Gina Prince-Bythewood TriStar film The Woman King, and in Showtime’s drama series The First Lady, which has her portraying former first lady Michelle Obama, among other projects.Ford is best known for his 2017 documentary Strong Island, a Netflix Original which made its world premiere at Sundance.
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