Black Nativity back on track with Forest Whitaker

November 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The on-again, off-again film adaptation of Black Nativity seems to be on again, now.

Two months ago, it was reported that the film, which is based on a 1961 musical and concerns a young black teen who spends Christmas with his grandparents, had been shelved because Samuel L. Jackson dropped out of the project.

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Long-gestating Nativity films still slouching towards Bethlehem

July 3, 2012 By 3 Comments

I may have stepped aside from regular blogging for two or three years, but some of the projects I talked about back then are still in development. Case in point: Black Nativity, an adaptation of the 1961 Broadway musical.

When I last mentioned it in April 2009, Fox Searchlight was said to be “fast-tracking” the film for release in December of that year — but I don’t think I heard anything about it again after that, until today.

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