Viola Davis To Star In Amazon Drama ‘Two Butterflies’ Written By Evan Dodson; ‘Strong Island’s Yance Ford To Direct
Deadline is reporting that Viola Davis is in talks to star in Two Butterflies, an Amazon drama based on an original idea and script by Evan Dodson, which will be directed by Strong Island‘s Yance Ford.
Two Butterflies follows two estranged sisters who are torn apart by tragedy and forced to reunite when one sister must be transported to an Alzheimer’s facility. Dodson became the youngest scribe ever to make the Black List of the year’s best unproduced screenplays when his script was selected in 2016.
Davis and Julius Tennon will produce the upcoming film for JuVee Productions, with Rob Hardy for Rainforest Entertainment.
Davis will next be seen in the Gina Prince-Bythewood TriStar film The Woman King, and in Showtime’s drama series The First Lady, which has her portraying former first lady Michelle Obama, among other projects.
Ford is best known for his 2017 documentary Strong Island, a Netflix Original chronicling the 1992 murder of Ford’s brother and the failure of an all-white jury to convict his killer. The film led him to become the first openly transgender man to be nominated for any Academy Award, and to win an Emmy.