Gina Prince-Bythewood to direct Viola Davis in The Woman King

As reported by Variety, the project is The Woman King, which we first heard about back in 2018 when Viola Davis and Lupita Nyong’o were attached to star. Davis is still on board (no word on Nyong’o, unfortunately), and she’ll be playing Nanisca, the leader of the aforementioned unit, who—along with her daughter—fights off invading French colonizers and other tribes “who violated their honor, enslaved their people, and threatened to destroy everything they’ve lived for.” So it’s a historical war movie centering on Viola Davis’ squad of female warriors, which seems like a pretty cool setup. In a statement from Viola Davis and her husband Julius Tennon’s production company, JuVee Productions, they say that it’s time for the women warriors of the Dahomey Ahsoi tribe to “truly occupy their place in history,” adding that the story will be a “gamechanger” in Prince-Bythewood’s hands.

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