Madonna is getting ready to shout “action!” again: She’s going to direct her third motion picture.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the BBC and other media, Madonna is set to helm Ade: A Love Story, the debut novel of Rebecca Walker, daughter of Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple.
Rebecca Walker will co-produce the indie film, along with Bruce Cohen, who produced Silver Linings Playbook and American Beauty. She also is the author of a memoir, Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self, about growing up interracial and with different religions (her father is civil rights lawyer Mel Leventhal).
Her novel tells the story of a young American student who falls in love with a young Muslim man on an idyllic island off the coast of Kenya before the clash of cultures complicates the relationship.
Madonna evidently loved the
book when it was published last year. She posted a picture of the cover and the blurb, “Read this Book! An incredible journey! A Beautiful LOVE story!”
It will be Madonna’s third time in the director’s chair, although her previous efforts were not resounding successes. WE, in 2011, was a period retelling of the Edward VIII/Wallis Simpson imbroglio, while 2008’s Filth and Wisdom was a comedy centered on roommates living desperate lives in London.
Still, she had a huge world tour last year and was named the world’s top-earning celebrity — with about $125m —by Forbes in 2013.
