Jeffrey Wright and Octavia Spencer are set to co-star in Chinonye Chukwu and Tony Kushner’s big-screen adaptation of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” at Focus Features and Amblin, Variety has confirmed.
Wright will lead as Willy Loman, and Spencer will play his wife, Linda Loman.
The two-act tragedy, which first premiered on Broadway in 1949, follows an exhausted traveling salesman who tries to start prioritizing his family over his grueling career after a near-fatal car accident and a fruitless business trip to Boston.
“Death of a Salesman”, which won a Tony for best play and a Pulitzer Prize for drama, has been adapted for the screen before. László Benedek’s 1951 rendition, starring Fredric March and Mildred Dunnock, earned five Oscar nominations. The show was also adapted i