The duo of Viola Davis and Lupita Nyong'o, who are both Oscar winners will appear as mother and daughter, in an upcoming movie "The Woman King" a female warrior tale.
"The King Women" is being co-produced by Cathy Schulman’s Welle Entertainment, Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions as well as Bello’s Jack Blue Productions.
TriStar Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to the feature film, which is inspired by real experiences and based on an original story by Maria Bello.
Based on the true events that happened in The Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful West African states in the 18th and 19th centuries, "The Woman King" depicts the story of Nanisca (Davis), general of the all-female military unit known as the Amazons and her daughter Nawi (Nyong’o), who together battled the French and neighboring tribes who violated their honor, enslaved their people and threatened to destroy everything they’ve lived for.
Matching up the project to the record-breaking "Black Panther" which starred Nyong'o, Schulman said: “Black Panther" just showed us how the power of imagination and lore could reveal a world without gender and racial stereotypes.
"The Woman King" will tell one of history’s greatest forgotten tales from the real world in which we live, where an army of African warrior women engrossed in slavery, colonialism and inter-tribal warfare, come together to unify a nation.”
