Remember this picture of Rihanna and Lupita Nyong'o that went viral after twitter users created a
movie scene out of it? Well the movie is finally happening.
After an
aggressive bid at the Cannes Film Festival, Netflix has won the rights
to produce the movie.
The movie will be directed by De-Vernay while the
screenplay would be written by Issa Rae.
The
whole idea of the movie was created after a twitter user shared a photo
of Rihanna and Lupita at a FAshion in 2014 and captioned it; “Rihanna
looks like she scams rich white men and lupita is the computer smart
best friend that helps plan the scans,” The tweet has now received over
96,000 retweets (It’s since been reported that the original idea
actually came from Tumblr). Both stars then expressed interest in the
idea on Twitter, followed by Selma director DeVernay and Insecure writer
Issa Rae.
Lupita wrote:
"I'm down if you are @rihanna"
"I'm in Pit'z," Rihanna replied Lupita. "Issa possibility".
It is
reported that the he original Twitter users who imagined the concept for
this film will be credited and included in some form.
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