Da’Vine Joy Randolph looks to join Michel Gondry’s Pharrell Williams musical
Our newest Best Supporting Actress Oscar-winner, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, looks to have her next project in view. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the star of “The Holdovers” will join a new musical from director Michel Gondry and producer Pharrell Williams. The project is said to be based on Williams’s youth in Virginia Beach in the 1970s. (I hope we get to watch his very tall hat grow.) IMDb has the title of the film listed as “Atlantis,” but this is unconfirmed by THR.
The screenplay is written by Martin Hynes, whose previous writing credits include “Toy Story 4” and “Stealing Harvard” (and also playing George Lucas in the legendary short “George Lucas in Love”), and Steven Levenson, whose musical credits include “Dear Evan Hanson” and “tick, tick…BOOM.” Kelvin Harrison Jr., recently seen in “Chevalier” and “Elvis” is believed to be starring, and IMDb lists Andre 3000, Mary J. Blige, and Missy Elliot as being cast.
The genre-defiant Gondry won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar with Charlie Kaufman for “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” and while he’s done music videos for everyone from Beck to Björk (as well as the concert film “Dave Chappelle’s Block Party”) this will be his first musical. It will also be his first movie in English since 2012’s “The We and I.”
While “The Holdovers” was the first exposure for many to Da’Vine Joy Randolph (who is terrific in “Dolemite Is My Name”) she did first gain recognition for her portrayal of Whoopi Goldberg’s character Oda Mae Brown in the 2012 Broadway musical production of “Ghost,” and was nominated for a Tony Award.
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