Viola Davis’ next project will be the Black List-making “Two Butterflies.” According to Deadline, she will produce and “is in talks to star” in the Amazon drama about estranged sisters.
Penned by Evan Dodson, who “became the youngest scribe ever to make the Black List of the year’s best unproduced screenplays when his script was selected in 2016,” and directed by Yance Ford, who became the first openly trans man to receive an Oscar nod and win an Emmy with “Strong Island,” “Two Butterflies” follows “two estranged sisters who are torn apart by tragedy and forced to reunite when one sister must be transported to an Alzheimer’s facility.”
Davis and her husband, Julius Tennon, are producing via their JuVee Productions.
Davis was most recently seen in Netflix drama “The Unforgivable” and comic book pic “The Suicide Squad.” She won an Oscar for “Fences” and was also nominated for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “The Help,” and “Doubt.” She received an Emmy for her starring role in “How to Get Away with Murder,” and Tonys for “King Hedley II” and a Broadway revival of “Fences.”
You can catch Davis next in “The Woman King” and “The First Lady,” both of which are expected later this year. The former, from Gina Prince-Bythewood, is an epic about the woman warriors of the Kingdom of Dahomey; the latter is a Showtime anthology series in which Davis portrays Michelle Obama.