Bruce Cohen ("Silver Linings Playbook") will produce the adaptation.
Madonna is getting back into the director's chair.
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Madonna Announces AviThe performer, who last directed 2011's stylish period romance W.E., is attached to direct Ade: A Love Story, an adaptation of the debut novel by Rebecca Walker.
Bruce Cohen is producing the indie adaptation via his Bruce Cohen Productions. Jessica Leventhal, the company's director of development, and Walker also are producing.
Walker, the daughter of The Color Purpleauthor Alice Walker and civil rights lawyer Mel Leventhal, wrote about growing up interracial and with mixed religions in her memoir Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self.
In her debut novel, published in October 2013, Walker creates a narrator similar to herself (the mother is Christian, while the father is Jewish). The story centers on a 19-year-old American student traveling with a feminist companion in Africa who falls in love with a young Muslim man on an island off the coast of Kenya. Their hastily made plans to marry, however, get blown away by cultural and political forces.
Although very much a love story, many of the themes and subjects in Ade are those Madonna has touched upon in envelope-pushing ways at the height of her music career: Sex, religion, race and lesbianism all figure into the story at one point or another. Already a fan of the book, Madonna also provided a blurb that appeared in promotional materials.
CAA is arranging financing. Madonna and the producers are on the hunt for a screenwriter to adapt the book.
Cohen was a producer on Silver Linings Playbook and is working on adapting the graphic novel The Fifth Beatle.
Madonna, repped by CAA, also directed the 2008 comedy Filth and Wisdom. The Weinstein Company released W.E., which, despite curiosity, only grossed $583,000 at the domestic box office.
Madonna is repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment. Walker is repped by UTA, Anderson Literary Management and Shep Rosenman at Katz Golden Rosenman.
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She is also good in directing. W.E. is very well produced, impecable. The thing is peolple get really critic when someone is already well succeed in another artistic degree.
And beeing also controversal, unapologetic and irreverent the 'people of the busyness' start to sabotage.
The thing is once they had to swallow you down in music icon, and the best concerts, videoclips, fitness, entrepeneurial, people will accept sooner or later the devotion and hard work.
Evita was well accept at the Golden Globe, and also W.E. and as you never tried to pleased people, but do something you believe in, don't you ever give up.
When you have artistic talent in some area yes you can pratice to develop you focus in another level. Being honest and sincere, the truth will be seeing with good eyes.
if you are afraid of failure you do not deserve to be successful.
only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible
only those who attempt to fail gracefully deserve to be succeed
and yes I am a very positive person.
>> By the way, I already order the book and it will arrive tomorrow!!
