
Boasting an all-star cast including Jennifer Hudson and Angela Bassett, the Langston Hughes adaptation “Black Nativity” seemed like the perfect Christmas release when it was announced this summer. However, as the film geared up for its start date and a variety of leading men surrounded the project, it now appears that casting hesitation has spelled doom for the film and its future. Weeks before its October New York production was booked to begin, Fox Searchlight has announced they will instead be shelving the Kasi Lemmons-directed project, after several male leads including Samuel L. Jackson and Laurence Fishburne passed on the script. Centered around a Baltimore single mother (Hudson) who sends her teenage son to his grandparents' Harlem house for Christmas, the musical required the difficult task of finding an actor suitable to play Hudson's father (across from Bassett as the grandmother), who could also supply a quality set of pipes for the gospel tunes...
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