Jeffrey Wright & Octavia Spencer Cast in ‘Death Of A Salesman’ Movie Remake | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip

Jeffrey Wright And Octavia Spencer To Star In Chinonye Chukwu's 'Death Of A Salesman' Film Adaptation

Jeffrey Wright and Octavia Spencer are taking on the film adaptation of a stage classic. Deadline reports that Clemency and Till director Chinonye Chukwu will helm the Focus Features and Amblin film adaptation of Death of a Salesman . Chukwu will also adapt the story for film with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tony Kushner. Wright, who is currently starring in Highest 2 Lowest , and Spencer will star as the leading roles of Willy Loman and his wi

Jeffrey Wright & Octavia Spencer Cast in ‘Death Of A Salesman’ Movie Remake | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip

Jeffrey Wright and Octavia Spencer are set to bring an iconic play to life on the big screen! Death of a Salesman is a classic play first released in 1949 by American playwright Arthur Miller. The play first ran on Broadway in 1949 and 1950 for a total of over 740 performances before being revived on Broadway for five additional runs. Now, a new movie adaptation is in the works with the 59-year-old Highest 2 Lowest actor and 55-year-old Ma actre…

Jeffrey Wright and Octavia Spencer to Star in ‘Death of a Salesman’ at Focus Features and Amblin

Jeffrey Wright and Octavia Spencer are set to co-star in Chinonye Chukwu and Tony Kushner's film adaptation of Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman.'

Jeffrey Wright & Octavia Spencer Set For Chinonye Chukwu & Tony Kushner’s ‘Death Of A Salesman’ At Focus Features And Amblin

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a big one that has just come together at Focus Features and Amblin: Till and Clemency filmmaker Chinonye Chukwu will direct and co-adapt with Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman with Oscar nominee Jeffrey Wright and Oscar winner Octavia Spencer starring. Wright will play the legendary role of […]

Jeffrey Wright and Octavia Spencer to star in Death of a Salesman

Read the original post on Flickering Myth here: Jeffrey Wright and Octavia Spencer to star in Death of a Salesman Chinonye Chukwu and Tony Kushner’s big-screen adaptation of Death of a Salesman has found its lead as Deadline has revealed that Jeffrey Wright and Octavia Spencer are set to star in the production from Focus Features and Amblin. Death of a Salesman is a tragic play written by Arthur Miller in 1949. It explores the […] Read the origi…

Jeffrey Wright and Octavia Spencer Will Star in Death of a Salesman Film, Adapted by Tony Kushner

Tony winner Jeffrey Wright and Oscar winner Octavia Spencer will star in a new film adaptation of Death of a Salesman. The movie will be directed by Chinonye Chukwu. Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner is co-adapting the play by Arthur Miller with Chukwu. Wright, who will portray Willy Loman, won the Tony Award in 1994 for his performance in Kushner’s Angels in America: Perestroika and earned a Tony nomination in 2002 for Topdog/Underdog. His oth…