Overview
- Lionsgate has boarded for international sales and will launch the project ahead of next week’s European Film Market.
- Colman Domingo will portray Nat King Cole, co-wrote the screenplay with Vernon Scott, and is producing.
- The film is pitched for a broad PG-13 audience and will explore Cole’s artistry and quiet resistance to racism and industry pressures.
- Production is aimed to begin later this year, and the project would likely mark Domingo’s feature directorial debut.
- The producing team includes Cassian Elwes, Charles D. King, William Rosenfeld, Poppy Hanks, Jimmy Edwards, Veronica Radaelli and Fred Berger, with rights tied to Iconic Artists Group’s 2022 estate deal.