Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season’s buzziest movies continues with Netflix‘s The PianoLesson, the adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize ...
Malcolm and John David Washington talk about collaborating on a new August Wilson adaptation and screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes discusses his breakout year.
The piano on the set of “The Piano Lesson” could be played and the cast members often did. It was adorned with pictures of the Washington family and their ancestors.
(The track that plays into The PianoLesson’s final credits isn’t a famed jazz number—it’s “Wither,” an elegiac Frank Ocean song about the cyclical nature of life and love.) Deadwyler ...