While The Shade Purple is still acquiring sales at package workplace, Oprah Winfrey has actually currently established her views on her next film project.
The magnate informs The Hollywood Press reporter that she’s optioned the legal rights to The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese, one of her publication club options. However offered the story– which focuses on an Indian family members that sheds a minimum of someone each generation because of a sinking– she recognizes she’s going“to have a hell of a time getting that done because it’s also a story about people of color.”
In THR’s current cover tale on The Shade Purple, Winfrey kept in mind that the film’s efficiency at package workplace would likely influence the future of various other tasks concerning Black or brownish individuals. She claims that in spite of the racial projection after George Floyd that saw Hollywood devote to purchasing such stories, it’s still an obstacle to make those kind of movies.
However she likewise keeps in mind that workshops are much less most likely to take come across extra complex tasks as a whole.
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“I think that everybody is so afraid and controlled by what they feel is going to work. There is a great loss in people understanding the true power of storytelling that has brought us through eras in Hollywood where you could tell a story like The English Patient and you could tell a story like the original Color Purple and audiences would respond. And now if you don’t have a brand, already marketable brand behind it, it’s hard to sit in a room and pitch a story,” she regreted.“Because unless you’re saying, ‘I’m bringing Rihanna or Beyoncé or Taylor or one of the people who have 200 million followers, people are like, ‘What’s the hook?’ … So I think that that is true for certainly telling stories about people of color. And I think it’s also true for everybody who’s trying to do some serious filmmaking about all stories. It’s challenging.”
And while Covenant of Water was a best-seller, it’s likewise major price.
“There’s nothing we can sell in that, inside that. There’s no dolls you can make and there’s no product you can conjure from it,” she claimed. “So listen, I am here in the space of finding and creating stories as an offering to the world to show the world to itself and to try to do that in a way that lets in particular, not just exclusively, but in particular people of color see the reflection of themselves in the highest light.”
