#BBB NEWS| Queen Latifah To Star In Lee Daniels’ Next TV Drama

After a wonderful turn as The Wizard of Oz in NBC’s The Wiz Live!, Queen Latifah will be starring in another music-centered role in the near future.

On Dec. 8, Deadline announced that the renaissance woman will star in Lee Daniels’ upcoming pilot about the Atlanta music scene, which is currently untitled.

The pilot revolves around three girls who form a girl group, and of course, face the trials and tribulations of the industry along their journey. Latifah will play Carlotta, an ATL- beauty shop owner with a monster set of pipes who “will become a surrogate mother to the three girls – even though she doesn’t approve of their musical dreams.”

Daniels and his team put out a nationwide casting call to find the show’s leads, and locked Jude Demorest, Ryan Destiny and Brittany O’Grady as the three budding singers, Star, Alexandra and Simone, respectively. Production begins later this month in Atlanta.

#BBB NEWS| Jada Pinkett Smith Reveals Little Known Fact About Her Classic Film “Set It Off” [PHOTOS]

Jada Pinkett-Smith has been a successful Hollywood actress FROM TIME. From 1994’s Jason’s Lyric and A Low Down Dirty Shame, all the way to the 2004’s Collateral staring opposite Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx, Mrs. Smith has been holding her own, and doing it well.

On Tuesday night (October 6) Jada went strolling down memory lane and uploaded an old Set it Off cast photo to Instagram.

The film, directed F. Gary Gray and written by Kate Lanier, debuted in theaters November 6, 1996 and earned $41 million against it $9 million budget.

Staring Smith, Vivica A. Fox, Queen Latifah and Kimberly Elise, who made her acting debut, the film follows four friends in L.A. who rob a bank, and while all four ladies did a phenomenal job, helping to make the film a classic, Jada revealed she actually didn’t want to play Stony; she had her heart set on another role.

#BBB NEWS| Queen Latifah And Mary J. Blige Sign On For NBC’s ‘The Wiz Live’

NBC’s The Wiz Live premiere date of Dec. 3 is soon approaching, and little has been released on production’s casting.

On Tuesday (July 28), the network revealed that iconic industry game-changers, Queen Latifah and Mary J. Blige, have signed on to be a part of their song-and-dance adaptation of The Wizard of Oz.

Latifah will play Emerald City’s leader, Wiz, while Blige takes on the bada** persona of the Wicked Witch of the West, a.k.a. Evillene. Entertainment Weekly also reports that, “they’ll star in The Wiz alongside previously announced cast member Stephanie Mills, who’s playing Auntie Em.”

Executive producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who both produced NBC’s musical telecasts The Sound of Music Live! and last year’s Peter Pan Live, gushed over having the ladies a part of the production.