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Once On This Island Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

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Last modified: Aug. 9, 2020

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Once On This Island

Director: Wanuri Kahiu

Screenwriter: Jocelyn Bioh

N/A Musical N/A

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Production Status

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Development
Production Progress
Story selection and rights acquired; idea being crafted into usable script; financing and casting attachments sought; aiming for 'greenlight'. Disney+ is planning an adaptation of the award-winning musical of the same name.

August 9, 2020

Plot

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Plot
Set in the French Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, the story of a peasant girl who falls in love with an aristocrat. Against this backdrop, social class differences play out while the island gods wager a bet of what is stronger, love or death.
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Crew Behind the Film

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The film's director Wanuri Kahiu last directed Look Both Ways and Rafiki.

Director
Wanuri Kahiu
Screenwriter
Producer
Marc Platt
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Production Details

What we know about the Once On This Island movie production.

Key Facts

  • A 2017 Broadway revival had a book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens with music composed by Stephen Flaherty (8/9/2020).
  • Playwright Jocelyn Bioh and director Wanuri Kahiu are developing the project (8/9/2020).

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Changed Once On This Island movie production status. Disney+ is planning an adaptation of the award-winning musical of the same name.

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Language
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Once On This Island is coming out to on To Be Announced (TBA) There are 9,451 other movies coming out on the same date, including The Nightingale, Star Wars: New Jedi Order and The Rosie Project.

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