‘Harriet’ Filmmaker Kasi Lemmons Bringing WWII Female Soldiers Novel ‘The Shadow King’ To Big Screen With Atlas Entertainment
Kasi Lemmons will adapt and direct Maaza Mengiste’s historical fiction novel The Shadow King about the Ethiopian women soldiers, left out of the historical record, who went to battle against Mussolini’s invading army in 1935 Ethiopia. Atlas Entertainment is producing. The novel follows, Aster, the wife of a commander in Haile Selassie’s overwhelmed army, and her household servant Hirut, who […]
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