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- 10/30/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Kasi Lemmons is attached to adapt and direct the critically acclaimed South African novel Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk. U.K. producer Patrick Holzen is producing the film alongside Mark R. Harris (Crash, Gods & Monsters) and Los Angeles-based Debbie Vandermeulen. The film will be co-produced by Do Productions in South Africa. Set in South Africa during the apartheid era of the 1950s-'90s, Agaat takes place on a farm run by a desperately unhappy white couple, Milla and Jak de Wet. Ever present in their lives is their half-adopted, half-enslaved black maid, Agaat. When Jak dies and Milla grows
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- 10/29/2012
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Another Kasi Lemmons project that we can only hope will eventually (sooner than later) see the light of day. IndieWire sister site Thompson On Hollywood is reporting that Lemmons has been tapped to helm a film adaptation of South African author Marlene van Niekerk's acclaimed 2004 novel Agaat (The Way of the Women is the title of the English language-translated novel). One of Oprah Winfrey's O magazine's "10 Books to Pick Up" in the August 2010 issue, Agaat's synopsis, courtesy of Good Reads follows: Set in apartheid South Africa, Agaat portrays the unique relationship between Milla, a 67-year-old white woman, and her black maidservant...
- 10/26/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Kasi Lemmons, director of "Eve's Bayou" and "Talk to Me," is attached to adapt and direct South African apartheid novel "Agaat," written in 2010 by Marlene van Niekerk. The rights to the book have been optioned by producers Patrick Holzen, Mark R. Harris and Debbie Vandermeulen. Holzen states, “It took a long deliberation to find the perfect person and I can’t imagine the project with anyone else now. [Lemmons'] previous projects have dealt with themes of social change, empowerment and love, which are our themes as well. Kasi is a formidable talent with a unique perspective that was essential to adapting this masterpiece.” A synopsis of the story is below, via Booklist. Lemmons also recently adapted Zadie Smith's "On Beauty" and is set to direct "Black Nativity," Langston Hughes' gospel musical, for Fox Searchlight. Seventy-year-old Milla de Wet is slowly dying of...
- 10/26/2012
- by Sophia Savage
- Thompson on Hollywood
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