The life story of Nina Simone is coming to the screen. And she’ll be Mary J Blige-shaped.
Simone, who was known as the high priestess of soul, enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame in the ‘60s. She’s best known for the likes of To Be Young, Gifted And Black, an anthem of the civil rights movement. Her later years were less stellar – she lived in exile in Paris, where she died in 2003.
Blige will play Simone through her formative career years, with the plot chronicling her relationship with her Paris-based manager Clifton Henderson.