Cynthia Erivo To Star & Produce Remake Of ‘The Rose’
Deadline is reporting that Grammy, Tony and Emmy winner and two-time Academy Award nominee Cynthia Erivo is set for a remake of The Rose at Searchlight, in which she will star and also produce alongside Solome Williams.
The film is a remake of the 1979 Fox musical romantic drama that starred Bette Midler as a self-destructive rock star who struggles to deal with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of those around her. While paying homage to the original, for which Midler scored an Oscar nom, the remake will put a contemporary lens on the high price of fame.
Searchlight now will look to attach a writer to the project. Director of development Richard Ruiz and creative executive Cornelia Burleigh will oversee the project for Searchlight.
Erivo won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role in The Color Purple followed by an Academy Award nomination for her role as Harriet Tubman in Harriet. On TV, she appeared in the HBO series The Outsider and recently played Aretha Franklin on National Geographic’s Genius: Aretha and just wrapped production on Disney’s Pinocchio remake. Her debut album, Ch 1. vs. 1, comes out this summer, and debut her children’s book Remember to Dream, Ebere arrives in September.