EbonyLife Have Acquired The Rights to Adapt a Great Wole Soyinka Play to a Movie

In an announcement on Instagram on Sunday, EbonyLife CEO, Mo Abudu revealed that the media house’s film department had acquired the rights to develop a feature film centred around Wole Soyinka’s play, Death and the King’s Horseman.

Flanked by Soyinka in the picture announcing the development, Abudu stated that the movie will be globally distributed which comes as no surprise considering Ebony Life movies like The Wedding Party and Fifty have enjoyed similar releases.

The play which debuted in 1975 is based on a true story in Oyo State during the 1940s where a British officer prevented the horseman of a deceased Yoruba chief from taking his life, as dictated by Yoruba tradition.

The role EbonyLife will play with this movie is an important one particularly because it aids in taking back the narrative and telling our stories ourselves. If we can predict anything, you can expect a huge budget which leads to a star studded cast that could inevitably make this one of the biggest Nigerian movies whenever it is released.

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