Netflix is heading to 1920’s Chicago, adapting August Wilson’s award-winning play “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” into a feature film.
The streaming giant has landed Academy Award-winner Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Colman Domingo, Glynn Turman and Michael Potts to star in the film, which Denzel Washington will produce, alongside Todd Black and Dany Wolf.
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” was nominated for Best Play at 1985 Tony Awards. The play is one of August Wilson’s ten-play “Pittsburg Cycle,” each of which is set in a different decade and aims to present and explore the Black experience in the 20th century. “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” is the only one of the ten plays not set in Pittsburg.