The Color Purple Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

What's the story about?

Plot

A musical adaptation of Alice Walker's novel about the life-long struggles of an African-American woman living in the south during the early 1900s.

Drama Musical Adaptation

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in The Color Purple.

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  Taraji P. Henson

  ... Shug Avery

  Hidden Figures, Fight Night (mini series)

• C
  Corey Hawkins

  ... Harpo

  The Piano Lesson, Kong: Skull Island

• H
  H.E.R.

  ... Squeak

• F
  Fantasia Barrino

  ... Celie

• D
  Danielle Brooks

  ... Sofia

  A Minecraft Movie, Angry Birds

• F
  Fantasia Taylor

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  Colman Domingo

  Sing Sing, Michael

• H
  Halle Bailey

  The Line, The Little Mermaid

• E
  Elizabeth Marvel

  Swallow, You Hurt My Feelings

• T
  Terrence J. Smith

• T
  Tiffany Elle Burgess

• A
  Aba Arthur

Crew Behind the Film

The The Color Purple behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Blitz Bazawule last directed Black Is King.

Director

Blitz Bazawule

Screenwriter

Marcus Gardley

Producers

Quincy Jones
Scott Sanders
Steven Spielberg
Oprah Winfrey

Additional Information

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Production Details

What we know about the The Color Purple movie production.

Key Facts

• The film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures and is set to open in theaters in North America on December 25, 2023 and internationally beginning 18 January 2024 (6/3/2023).
• Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Harpo Films Production, an Amblin Entertainment Production, a Scott Sanders Production/a QJP Production, “The Color Purple.”
• Joining director Bazawule behind the camera are director of photography Dan Laustsen (“John Wick: Chapter 4,” “The Shape of Water”), production designer Paul Denham Austerberry (“The Flash,” “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse”) and editor Jon Poll (“Bombshell,” “The Greatest Showman”). The choreographer is Fatima Robinson (“Coming 2 America,” “Dreamgirls”) and the costumes are designed by Francine Jamison-Tanchuck (“Emancipation,” “One Night in Miami…”). The music supervisors are Jordan Carroll (“The Greatest Showman,” “Godfather of Harlem”) and Morgan Rhodes (“Space Jam: A New Legacy,” “Selma”); the music is by Kris Bowers (“King Richard,” “Green Book”); and the executive music producers are Nick Baxter (“Babylon,” “CODA”), Stephen Bray (“Respect,” “Juanita”) and Blitz Bazawule.
• The story of Celie in the South during the early 20th century.
• The musical, with a book by playwright Marsha Norman, and music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray, began on Broadway in 2005.
• Based on the Tony-winning musical and the hit 1985 film.

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