After premiering her latest film 'The Last Thing He Wanted' at Sundance, Dee Rees has chosen her next project: a remake of George Gershwin’s 'Porgy and Bess'
Rees will write and direct the musical, which follows Porgy, a disabled black street beggar living in the slums of Charleston, as he attempts to rescue Bess from a violent love and drug dealer., which is itself an adaptation of Heyward's 1925 novel. It was previously adapted for the screen in a 1959 film that Otto Preminger directed, with Sidney Poitier playing Porgy and Dorothy Dandridge as Bess.
is behind the movie and has worked closely with the Gershwin estate on the project. Irwin Winkler and Charles Winkler will produce., and reteamed with the streamer on the Joan Didion adaptation that stars Ben Affleck and Anne Hathaway and will start streaming on Feb. 21.
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