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EXCLUSIVE: C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi’s psychological play A Blue Butterfly starring Steve Toussaint (House of nan Dragon) and Sanaa Lathan (Succession) has completed filming successful London and will move to Rwanda for a further two-week shoot. Check retired a first look image from nan task above.
Today, we tin denote that respective names person besides been added to nan cast. Those see Lucian Msamati (Conclave), Anton Lesser (Andor), Eliane Umuhire (A Quiet Place: Day One), Andy Nyman (Wicked), and Aggy K. Adams (The Witcher).
A Blue Butterfly is Obasi’s first characteristic since Mami Wata (2023), which screened astatine Sundance earlier playing crossed nan show circuit. The movie was Nigeria’s introduction for Best International Feature Film astatine nan 96th Academy Awards and landed Independent Spirit and NAACP Image Award nominations.
A Blue Butterfly is produced by Stella Nwimo pinch Rebecca Long co-producing for their Boudica Entertainment label. The task is described arsenic character-driven, pinch a crippled focused connected “exploring survivor’s guilt, redemption, and nan impossibility of self-forgiveness.” Toussaint wrote nan screenplay, and successful nan first image above, you tin spot him arsenic nan limousine driver Sentwali. He is surviving successful self-imposed exile erstwhile he meets and forms a relationship pinch a charismatic actress, played by Lathan, and for nan first clip successful decades, considers a future.
“Steve’s book is truthful intelligently written and intuitive,” Obasi said successful a statement. “I connected pinch it instantly and saw nan imagination of really we would make a very quality and cinematic characteristic piece. Every azygous personnel of nan formed is simply a thespian operating astatine nan tallness of their powers, and I’m successful awe of their cosmic talent.”
