Aunjanue Ellis, Sanaa Lathan, Uzo Aduba are set to star in The Supremes At Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat Adaptation for Searchlight Pictures. The film is an adaptation of Edward Kelsey Moore’s 2013 NY Times best-selling novel. Tina Mabry is directing from a script by Gina Prince-Bythewood with revisions by Mabry.
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The film adaptation of Moore’s debut novel follows best friends Odette, Barbara Jean and Clarice, who consider Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat diner a “home away from home” in their Indiana town. According to a synopsis, the trio (known as “The Supremes”) has “weathered life’s storms together for decades through marriage and children, happiness and the blues. Now, they will have to rely on their strong bond to survive their most challenging year yet as race, heartbreak and illness stir up the past and threaten to destroy their friendship.”
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Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen’s Temple Hill Entertainment is producing, with Production Heads DanTram Nguyen and Katie Goodson-Thomas overseeing for Searchlight, along with Director of Production Zahra Phillips and Creative Executive Apolline Berty.