May 24, 2013

Director Kasi Lemmons to Adapt South African Novel Agaat

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*Kasi Lemmons is attached to adapt and direct the critically acclaimed South African novel Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 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 [...]




Director Kasi Lemmons to Adapt Zadie Smith’s ‘On Beauty’

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*”Eve’s Bayou” helmer Kasi Lemmons will adapt and direct “On Beauty,” based on the Booker Prize-nominated novel by Zadie Smith. The book has been described as an academic comedy of manners, focusing on the story of two families with different but increasingly intertwined lives, race and sexual politics. It’s also been called a modern day [...]