Madonna to Direct Interracial Love Story ‘Adé: A Love Story’ Written by Alice Walker’s Daughter Rebecca

Madonna behind the scenes of ‘W.E.’ (2011)

Madonna , who directed the 2011 film W.E. , will soon direct another film entitled Adé: A Love Story , an adaptation of the debut novel by Rebecca Walker .

The film will be produced by Bruce Cohen ‘s Bruce Cohen Productions , with Jessica Leventhal , the company’s director of development, and Walker also serving as producers for the film.

Walker, the daughter of The Color Purple author Alice Walker and civil rights lawyer Mel Leventhal , wrote about growing up interracial and with mixed religions in her memoir Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self .

Rebecca Walker

Her 2013 debut follows a 19-year-old American student traveling with a feminist companion in Africa who falls in love with a young Muslim man on an island off the coast of Kenya. Their hastily made plans to marry, however, get blown away by cultural and political forces.

Although very much a love story, many of the themes and subjects in Adé are those Madonna has touched upon in envelope-pushing ways at the height of her music career.

Sex, religion, race, lesbianism all figure into the story one way or another. Already a fan of the book, Madonna also provided a blurb that appeared in promotional materials.

CAA is arranging financing, while a screenwriter is still being searched for.

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