The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Lee Daniels, the guy that brought Sapphire’s PRECIOUS to the screen, is to next adapt the Broadway play ANNA IN THE TROPICS to screens.
The trade says that, “the story is set in 1920s Tampa, then the seat of cigar-making industry and featured an imported Cuban tradition of lectors reading to workers. Inspired by Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Tropics centers on a family of cigar rollers whose lives are changed by the power of literature.”
The play is both Pulitzer and Steinberg prize-winning, and is written by Nilo Cruz. Cruz and Daniels will both work on the script.
