Halle Bailey and Fantasia Barrino made their official debut on Monday in the first trailer for the upcoming “The Color Purple” movie, a musical reboot of the 1985 classic, based on the novel of the same name by Alice Walker.
Dear God, it’s here: Warner Bros. released the first official trailer for “The Color Purple” on Monday.
“Dear Celie, we have more than just kings and queens,” Bailey’s young Nettie says in the trailer. “We are at the center of the universe.”
Based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel, “The Color Purple” follows sisters Celie and Nettie, who are growing up in rural Georgia in the early 1900s. Following a series of troubling events, the pair are cruelly and forcibly separated as teens.
Bailey is featured prominently alongside Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson and Colman Domingo in a new trailer for the movie musical adaptation of “The Color Purple,” due out this Christmas.
Oprah Winfrey, who starred in 1985’s “The Color Purple” film, joins Quincy Jones and Steven Spielberg as a producer on what’s described as a “bold new take” on the classic story. “Black Is King” director Blitz Bazawule is directing the colorful movie musical.
The Broadway musical’s hit song “I’m Here” plays in the background of the trailer, which showcases the main cast, including Bailey, Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, H.E.R, Colman Domingo, Phylicia Pearl Mpasi, Corey Hawkins and Danielle Brooks.
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