The Pulitzer prize winning stage-play ‘The Piano Lesson’ is having a movie adaptation. It is going to premiere on Netflix in November this year. The movie is directed by Denzel Washington’s son Malcolm Washington and looks like this is going to be a turning point in the filmmakers career.
The trailer looks wonderful and it strikes a heavy chord in the viewer. There are many subtle elements of racism, struggle, family values and freedom in the trailer and the performances are promising. The movie will have powerful actors like Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington, Ray Fisher, Michael Potts, Erykah Badu and more.
‘The Piano Lesson’ will tell the story of a Black family named Charles in Pittsburgh during the Great Depression. The family has an heirloom that is an exotic piano. The piano is engraved with many beautiful decorations by an enslaved ancestor of the Charles many years ago. The piano embodies the family legacy of the Charles but also poses them in front of a vital dilemma.
The stage-play written by August Wilson came out in 1987 and it went on to be one of the most popular plays ever written in America. Netflix’s decision to adapt it is indeed a great one and with the trailer it looks like Malcolm Washington has done a very good execution of it.
Watch the trailer here: