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David Oyelowo & Lupita Nyong’o In Talks To Star In ‘Queen Of Katwe’ For Disney

EXCLUSIVE: David Oyelowo and Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o are in negotiations to star in Queen Of Katwe, a pic based on the true story about the rise of a young African chess prodigy. Mira Nair is directing the pic in a reteam with her Reluctant Fundamentalist scribe William Wheeler, who penned the script. Disney is eyeing a spring shooting start.

Queen Of Katwe is based on Tim Crothers’ 2011 ESPN The Magazine article and subsequent book The Queen Of Katwe: A Story Of Life, Chess, And One Extraordinary Girl’s Dream Of Becoming A Grandmaster. It tells the story of Phiona Mutesi, who emerged out of a slum in Uganda to reach the World Chess Olympiad with the help and belief of her coach-mentor Robert Katende. Oyelowo, who’s up for a Golden Globe this weekend, will play Katende. Nyong’o will play Harriet Mutesi, Phiona’s young mother.

John Carls and longtime Nair collaborator Lydia Dean Pilcher are producing in association with ESPN Films. I’m hearing the true-life Cinderella story will be budgeted around $15M.

It would be the second film together for Oyelowo, who’s riding the wave of his breathtaking turn as Martin Luther King Jr in Paramount’s Selma, and Nyong’o, last year’s Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner for 12 Years A Slave. Both are attached to the feature adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah, the love story of two young immigrant Nigerians as their lives span continents. (Like Selma and 12 Years, that in-development project is from Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner’s Plan B.)

Oyelowo is up for a bunch of best actor awards for playing King on his 1965 Alabama civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, including at Sunday’s Globes. Nyong’o is in Disney’s upcoming Star Wars movie and also is the voice of Raksha in Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book.

Queen Of Katwe will be shot in South Africa and Uganda, the latter where Nair lives and runs the Maisha Film Labs, a film training initiative to give aspiring filmmakers there the tools and knowledge to tell their own stories through film and eventually create a local industry there. Nair’s 1991 film Mississippi Masala was shot on location in Kampala.

Oyelowo and Nyong’o are repped by CAA, and Nair by ICM Partners. Nyong’o additionally is repped by D2 Management and attorney Nina Shaw. Oyelowo is additionally repped by Hamilton Hodell, Inphenate and attorney Ira Schreck.

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The new Lancôme ad is identical to one of the photographs of the Vogue Italy 2014. Not inspiring at all :D
 
^LOL you´re right! I knew the image looked familiar but I thought it reminded me of old Lancome ads :lol:

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2015 Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday (January 11) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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I love the color, not thrilled about the top. The best part is the hair imo :)
 
Quite disappointed , the dress is very safe. I know she wasn't nominated so I understand that she might not wnat to come out in a statement dress but if even Kate Hudson can show up in her extravagant Versace number I'd wish Lupita and her stylist would put a bit more effort into it. The dress is lovely but a bit too lovely, almost generic.

undecided about the hair but I love that she's still having fun with it. I hope she goes to the SAG before the Oscars. I want her to impress me again please !
 
^ people said the same thing about the prada oscar look.

blah - don't like this at all.

i love her in SLEEK and MODERN looks.
i dislike princess, flowery looks on lupita.
 
^ people said the same thing about the prada oscar look.

blah - don't like this at all.

i love her in SLEEK and MODERN looks.
i dislike princess, flowery looks on lupita.

When I first saw it, I thought I liked - but I think I just got caught in up the Globes excitement because I loved that collection and glad there dress was worn. But I agree, she suits the more Calvin aesthetic of monochromatic looks. This just looks too busy in some shots.
 

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