{"id":9607,"date":"2014-11-18T23:33:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T22:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/?p=9607"},"modified":"2014-11-18T23:43:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T22:43:30","slug":"ade-a-love-story-finds-its-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/2014\/ade-a-love-story-finds-its-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Ad\u00e9: A Love Story’ Finds Its Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an exclusive story today The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/strong> breaks the news that\u00a0 Dianne Houston<\/strong> has signed onto adapt Rebecca Walker’s “Ad\u00e9: A Love Story<\/strong>” for the big screen.<\/p>\n

In May this year the Reporter’s first article attached the name of Madonna<\/strong> as the director for an adaptation of\u00a0 the debut novel by Rebecca Walker, the daughter of “The Color Purple” author Alice Walker and civil rights lawyer Mel Leventhaldates\u00a0 – click here to check our story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In her debut novel, published October 2013, Walker creates a story centered on a 19-year-old American student traveling with a feminist companion in Africa who falls in love with a young Muslim man on an island off the coast of Kenya. Their hastily made plans to marry, however, get blown away by cultural and political forces.<\/p>\n

Back in May it was reported that CAA was arranging financing while Madonna and the producers were reportedly on the hunt for a screenwriter to adapt the book. And the news is in today that they find the right writer in African-American film director, producer and screenwriter Dianne Houston<\/strong>, an Academy Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Film in 1995, who also wrote “Take the Lead”, the 2006 movie starring Antonio Banderas\u00a0 and who is also working on a bipic based on the life of rapper Missy Elliot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Click here to read the original story on<\/a> The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n

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In an exclusive story today The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/strong> breaks the news that Dianne Houston<\/strong> has signed on to adapt for the big screen Rebecca Walker’s “Ad\u00e9: A Love Story<\/strong>“, the story of a 19-year-old American student traveling with a feminist companion in Africa who falls in love with a young Muslim man on an island off the coast of Kenya. <\/p>\n

Back in May it was reported that CAA was arranging financing while Madonna<\/strong> and the producers were reportedly on the hunt for a screenwriter to adapt the book. And the news is in today that they find the right writer in African-American film director, producer and screenwriter Dianne Houston<\/strong>, who also wrote “Take the Lead”, the 2006 movie starring Antonio Banderas and who is also working on a bipic based on the life of rapper Missy Elliot<\/strong>. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[18],"tags":[173,172,174,433,175],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ade.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5eFGP-2uX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9611,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9607\/revisions\/9611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}