According to an article by the Hollywood
Reporter, Madonna is attached to direct "Ade: A Love Story", an
adaptation of the debut novel by Rebecca Walker.
Bruce Cohen is producing the indie
adaptation via his Bruce Cohen Productions. Jessica Leventhal, the company’s
director of development, and Walker also are producing. Walker, the daughter of The Color Purple
author Alice Walker and civil rights lawyer Mel Leventhal, wrote about growing
up interracial and with mixed religions in her memoir Black, White, and Jewish:
Autobiography of a Shifting Self.
In her debut novel, published October 2013,
Walker creates a narrator similar to herself (the mother is Christian while the
father is Jewish). The story centers on a 19-year-old American student
traveling with a feminist companion in Africa who falls in love with a young
Muslim man on an island off the coast of Kenya. Their hastily made plans to
marry, however, get blown away by cultural and political forces.
Although very much a love story, many of
the themes and subjects in Ade are those Madonna has touched upon in
envelope-pushing ways at the height of her music career. Sex, religion, race,
lesbianism all figure into the story one way or another. Already a fan of the
book, Madonna also provided a blurb that appeared in promotional materials.
CAA is arranging financing. Madonna and the
producers are reportedly on the hunt for a screenwriter to adapt the book.
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