The Shade Purple’s first trailer guarantees a robust reimagining of the unique movie

Alice Walker’s The Shade Purple has been a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, an Oscar award-nominated drama, and a Tony Award-winning musical through the years, and whereas every of these iterations of the basic story has been distinctive, the primary trailer for Warner Bros.’ upcoming remake makes it appear to be it’s going to be an interesting fusion of all of them.

From govt producers Oprah Winfrey, Quincy Jones, Steven Spielberg, and Scott Sanders, Warner Bros.’ new The Shade Purple tells the story of Celie (Phylicia Mpasi, Fantasia Barrino) and Nettie Harris (Halle Bailey, Ciara Wilson), two sisters whose traumatic lives are profoundly upended when Nettie’s pressured to run away searching for a greater life as a young person. Time and distance separate the sisters and remodel them into radically completely different folks through the years they’re aside. However a childhood promise that they’ll all the time preserve involved by letter provides Celie hope that she’ll see her sister once more at some point, and the trailer highlights simply how essential Mpasi and Bailey’s performances because the sisters up to now are to understanding Barino and Wilson’s as their grownup selves.

Whereas the trailer solely provides us the smallest style of Fantasia’s vocals, Taraji P. Henson’s spin on Shug Avery, and Danielle Brooks’ Sofia, that’s actually all it’s essential get a way of how electrical they’re all going to be. We’re nonetheless a methods off from the following awards season cycle, nevertheless it feels protected to imagine that after The Shade Purple hits theaters on December twenty fifth, it’s going to be one of many stronger contenders.