Wednesday, 5 July 2017

Tyler Perry to play Oscar Micheaux in new HBO biopic





    Actor and director,  Tyler Perry is to star in an HBO biopic on pioneering filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, playing Micheaux in the film.

   Reports says, the TV biopic would be produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, while Tyler would also serve as an executive producer.
   Meanwhile, a director is yet to be appointed but the script will be written by Charles Murray and it would be based on Patrick McGilligan‘s 2007 biography Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America’s First Black Filmmaker.

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