When Samuel L. Jackson makes his Broadway debut this fall, he won’t be the yelling and cursing Samuel L. we’ve all grown to love and expect.
Instead, he’ll play Dr. Martin Luther King in the Broadway production of The Mountaintop, a play which re-imagines events the night before King’s 1968 assassination.
The Mountaintop is written by Katori Hall, who is a 29-year-old American playwright, journalist, and actress from Memphis, TN. A Columbia University graduate who majored in African-American studies and creative writing, Hall received the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2010 for The Mountaintop. Her Hurt Village play won her $20,000 in prize money for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, given annually to outstanding women playwrights.
Tony Award Nominee Kenny Leon (A Raisin in the Sun) will direct The Mountaintop.
If you’re lamenting the disappearance of Samuel L.’s vulgar alter ego, find out what a Samuel L. Jackson GPS system would sound like HERE.
Hahahaha! This video is crazy funny! This could be a nice add for GPS.
Yeah! Lol. No kidding, very creative as well.
What’s up with Samuel Playing MLK? Does he have to do that? Why couldn’t they find somebody else, I just can’t see SLJ in a row like this. The casting to me has already missed the mark.
Big things to Katori! She is making the sky her ceiling.