Madonna movie project finds a screenwriter
MADONNA's dreams of turning REBECCA WALKER's memoir into a major movie has been given a big boost - in-demand writer DIANNE HOUSTON has signed on to write the screenplay.
Madonna, producer Bruce Cohen and Walker herself, the daughter of The Color Purple author Alice Walker, are currently seeking financial backers for Ade: A Love Story, which the pop superstar hopes to direct.
The film centres on an American student who falls in love with a young Muslim man on an island off the coast of Kenya.