“Is God is have landed an early Summer Release Date from orion Pictures, A Division of Amazon Mgm Studios. Playwright ALESHEA Harris is Directing the Big Screen Adptation of Her ACCLAIMED, AWARD-WINNING STAGE PLAY OF THE SAME NAME NAME WILL OPEN IN CINEMAS MAY 15, 2026. THAT’S JUST AROUND.”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Playwright ALESHEA Harris is Directing the Big Screen Adptation of Her AcClaimed, Award-Winning Stage Play of the Same Name Will Open Althugh There’s No Word Yet As to Who’s The Movie Will Make An Awards Play, Although Orion Is Known As a Home for Prestige Fare.
Is God is Marks Harris’ Feature Directorial Debut, and Stars Kara Young (Virgo) and Mallari Johnson (Kindred) As Twin African-Emerican Sisters Who Were Burned Badly As Babies in A Fire That Left Them With Permanent, Disfiguring Scars. Now 21 Years Old, They Embark on An Epic Quest for Revenge and, and Along The Way, Confront a Charged Family History that Will Push Them to Extraordininy Lentths.
Janelle Monáe, Erika Alexander, Mykelti Williamson and Josiah Cross Co-Star, With Vivica A. Fox and Sterling K. Brown Also Helping to Round Out the Cast.
Producers Include Viva Maude’s TESSA Thompson and Kishori Rajan, Lindens’ Riva Marker, Cyrk’s Janicza Bravo Alongside Harris. Stacy O’neil, Nicole King and Kenneth Yu Are Executive Production.
Harris wrote the adapted script. The Story Opens As the Twins Are Living A Meager Life in the Northeast. Everything Changes Whoy Learn Their Mother – Who Is Known As “She” or “God” – is Actual Alive. They Travel to Her Home in the South, Who She Tells Them Her Father Is Responsible for The Fire that Cated Burns and Her Own Injuries. The Mother Dispatches them to the California Desert to Find Him and Seek retribution.
Is God isWHICH Premiered Off-Broadway in 2018 at the soho Rep, Won Multiple Obie Awards and Quickly CAUGHT The Attmentation of Top Movie Producers, Such As Thompson. At One Point, Scott Rudin and A24 Were ALSO INTERESTED IN PURSUING A MOVIE ADAPTATION.
IT’s Hardly A Surprise Whotest. Two Years Earlier, Is God is – Still unproduced at that time – Won the American Playwriting Foundation’s Relantless Award, Establized in Honor of the Late Philip Seymour Hoffman. Harris was praied for her unique take on the revenge genre, and given a Cash Prize of $ 45,000, WHICH ALLOWED HER to HAVE STAGE READINGS ACROSS The COUNTRY.