Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series, highlighting the year’s most talked about screenplays, continues with the ambitious Ava DuVernay drama OriginThe screenplay is also by DuVernay and was inspired by the groundbreaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson Caste: the origin of our discontent.
The film examines caste systems around the world as a form of oppression. The story delves into the deep-rooted complexities of caste and how it underlies much of society’s discrimination, sometimes even surpassing race. Aimed at those who want to understand the world’s deep-rooted systems, the film is an ambitious, radical undertaking that highlights the horrors of caste and its intersections with race.
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor plays the author and follows the path she took in writing the book, while also experiencing her own tragedy. The creative and personal journey spans several continents and includes grief, revelation and the evils of historical stratification, from ancient times to India’s Dalit caste, slavery in America, and the racial segregation and violence of Jim Crow laws systematic persecution of Jews by the Nazis and the American horrors of the Holocaust.
Vera Farmiga, Audra McDonald, Nick Offerman, Blair Underwood and Connie Nielsen also star Jon Bernthal and Niecy Nash-Betts.
Neon’s film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, with DuVernay becoming the first black American to have a film in competition; It received a nine-minute standing ovation at its premiere. The film was released in Los Angeles earlier this month and will be in theaters on January 19.
Click below to read the script.
Source: Deadline
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