Black Panther: Disney partners Nigerian filmmaker to produce ‘Sade’

Renowned production studio, Disney, is currently developing an African fairy tale movie “Sade’’ with Nigerian-American producer and director, Rick Famuyiwa.Sade, according to news from Disney over the weekend, will be centred on an African princess after the fashion of the commercially successful “Black Panther’’. The movie was pitched by Nigerian writer, Ola Shokunbi and American writer, Lindsey Reed Palmer and was subsequently bought by Disney. Shokunbi and Palmer will co-write the screenplay about a young African girl named Sadé whose kingdom is threatened by a mysterious evil force. Sade accepts her newly discovered magical powers to protect her people with the help of the kingdom’s prince.