Samara Weaving (“Ready or Not”) and Kelvin Harrison Jr. (“Luce”) will star in Stephen Williams’ true-life period drama “Chevalier de Saint-Georges” at Searchlight and Element Pictures.
Stefani Robinson (“Atlanta,” “What We Do in the Shadows”) pens the script which centers on Joseph Bologne (aka. the Chevalier de Saint-Georges) – known as the Black Mozart.
Born in the Caribbean, Bologne was the illegitimate son of a plantation owner and a slave who was then educated in France and became a fencing master. With his music and operas, he ascended to the upper echelons of Marie Antoinette’s Paris society until a court scandal laid him low.
Weaving will play Marie-Josephine, a woman who yearns for creative fulfilment outside of her empty, loveless marriage and defies her controlling husband to become the voice of Bologne’s opera.
Robinson, Robinson and Dianne McGunigle, Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe are producing.
Source: THR
