Fox Searchlight is going to be embarking on telling the life story of legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey.
The studio has reached a deal to develop a film based on the life and work of the late choreographer, activist and founder of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater in New York City, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
In his early years as a dancer, Ailey worked on Hollywood productions including 1952’s Lydia Bailey and 1954’s Carmen Jones. He later appeared on Broadway shows including House of Flowers, penned by Truman Capote, and Sing, Man, Sing, starring Harry Belafonte, and formed the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater troupe in 1958. The group became known as the “Cultural Ambassador to the World” due to its many overseas tours. Twenty-five years after Ailey died in 1989, he was awarded a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom by then-President Barack Obama.
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