Film & TV NewsOscar Winner Regina King Will Direct Movie Version of Kemp Powers’ One Night in MiamiThe Olivier-nominated play follows boxing champion Cassius Clay as he finds his new identity as Muhammad Ali.
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Andrew Gans
July 10, 2019
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Regina King, who won an Academy Award earlier this year for her performance in If Beale Street Could Talk, will direct the screen adaptation of Kemp Powers’ play One Night in Miami, according to Deadline.
The drama is set on the historic night in 1964 when a 22-year-old Cassius Clay celebrated winning the world heavyweight boxing champion title with three of his closest friends: football star Jim Brown, singer Sam Cooke, and activist Malcolm X. The play, which was nominated for an Olivier Award in 2017, imagines what happens the night the four men celebrated Clay’s victory before he became known as Muhammad Ali.
Snoot Entertainment and ABKCO are producing the film: Producers are Keith Calder and Jess Wu Calder for Snoot and Jody Klein for ABCKO. The motion picture will feature Cooke's music, including “A Change Is Gonna Come.”
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Photo Exclusive: One Night in Miami… Star Nik Walker Shares the 37 Steps it Takes to Tackle a First Preview as Sam Cooke
Photo Exclusive: One Night in Miami… Star Nik Walker Shares the 37 Steps it Takes to Tackle a First Preview as Sam Cooke
Denver Center for the Performing Arts is presenting Kemp Powers' One Night in Miami…, a new play that imagines what occurred the night of Cassius Clay's historic win Sonny Liston and an after-fight celebration that included Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown. Nik Walker, who plays famed singer Cooke, tells Playbill.com just what it takes to prepare for a first preview.
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Step 1- Wake the hell up, no matter how good that dream was.
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Step 2- Thank your humidifier for protecting you from the high altitude dryness all night.
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Step 3- Don’t leave your bed till you’ve emailed your fiancée…
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…and watched your morning movie.
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Step 4- Pair your light breakfast with some educational reading.
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Step 5: Don’t overlook the beauty of your apartment’s lobby
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Step 6- Bring your notepad for notes.
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Step 7- Listen to every word that director Carl Cofield and stage manager Rachel Ducat tell you.
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Step 8- Don’t get distracted by how comfy William Oliver Watkins (Kareem) and Morocco Omari (Jim Brown) look sitting in those chairs…
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…or whatever Colby Lewis (Cassius Clay) is laughing at…
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…or how isolated in his time out corner Jason Delane (Malcolm X) is.
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Step 9- If York Walker (Jamaal) has any questions, try to explain it to him as best you can.
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Step 10- Remember how awesome your SM Phoebe Sacks is.
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Step 11- Never turn down some chillage with the boys.
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Step 12- Absorb that Vitamin D whenever possible.
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Step 13- Resist the temptation to indulge in all the wonderful things that are legal in Denver...at least not now, you got a show to do.
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Step 14- Acknowledge how cool it is to have your show up on a digital billboard
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Step 15- Try some good, clean organic food from a local restaurant. Love the taste, but miss NYC pizza immediately afterwards.
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Step 16- Take a midday nap while revisiting one of your old standby shows.
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Step 17- Get up, get back to the theater, and recall that no matter how far west you’ve gone…
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…home is never that far away.
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Step 18- Take some time to become one with your set.
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