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‘Harriet’ Filmmaker Kasi Lemmons Bringing WWII Female Soldiers Novel ‘The Shadow King’ To Big Screen With Atlas Entertainment

Kasi Lemmons will adapt and direct Maaza Mengiste's historical fiction novel The Shadow King about the Ethiopian women soldiers, left out of the historical record, who went to battle against Mussolini's invading army in 1935 Ethiopia. Atlas Entertainment is producing. The novel follows, Aster, the wife of a commander…

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Apr 16, 2020 12:00 pm
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Atlas Acquires Maaza Mengiste Novel ‘The Shadow King’, Untold Story Of WWII Resistance By Ethiopian Female Warriors Against Mussolini

EXCLUSIVE: Atlas Entertainment has acquired rights to Maaza Mengiste's historical novel The Shadow King. Set during Mussolini's 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King revolves around the first real conflict of World War II, casting light on the women soldiers who’ve been left out of the historical…