The seven-year fight to bring the ‘The Woman King’ to the big screen | News

The fight to bring The Woman King to the big screen started long before Gina Prince-Bythewood came on board, yet it chimes with the director’s career-long struggle to champion women of colour in her work.

Star and producer Viola Davis and fellow producer Cathy Schulman got the ball rolling seven years ago on what would become Tri­Star Pictures’ action epic. Schulman had piqued Davis’s interest after she shared a French book given to her by actress Maria Bello that recounted the little-known history of the . . .