Antoine Fuqua Directing Film Adaptation of ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ (EXCLUSIVE)

,” Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning look at greed, family, death and sexual repression.

The show was directed by Debbie Allen and featured Terrence Howard, Anika Noni Rose, Phylicia Rashad and James Earl Jones. The original play centers on Brick, a former athlete turned alcoholic, his sexually frustrated wife Maggie and Big Daddy, the ailing and wealthy family patriarch. Following the Broadway run, Byrd and Jones-Harvey transferred the show to London’s West End, where it won the Laurence Olivier award for best revival of a play. Adrian Lester played Brick and Sanaa Lathan played Maggie in that production.

“We set out to produce groundbreaking, high caliber work on both Broadway and London’s West End with iconic plays, and now we hope to replicate this with ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ as a film,” said Byrd and Jones-Harvey in a statement. ”We are thrilled to be able to bring this Tennessee Williams classic play to life once again in a new iteration with the acclaimed Antoine Fuqua at the helm.”

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