{"id":179528,"date":"2016-01-06T02:05:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T02:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=179528"},"modified":"2016-01-06T02:05:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T02:05:41","slug":"disney-releases-first-image-of-lupita-nyongo-in-the-queen-of-katwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/01\/disney-releases-first-image-of-lupita-nyongo-in-the-queen-of-katwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney releases first image of Lupita Nyong&#8217;o in &#8216;The Queen of Katwe&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Disney has unveiled the first image from <em>The Queen of Katwe<\/em>, the biographical drama about a Ugandan chess prodigy starring Lupita Nyong\u2019o, David Oyelowo, and newcomer Madina Nalwanga.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Directed by Mira Nair (<em>Monsoon Wedding<\/em>) and based on Tim Crothers\u2019 book (expanded from an <em>ESPN the Magazine<\/em> article), the film stars Nalwanga as Phiona Mutsei, a young girl from the slums of Kampala who chases her dream of becoming an international chess champion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nyong\u2019o plays Phiona\u2019s mother, and Oyelowo plays a missionary who teaches chess to local kids.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Largely shot on location in Uganda, <i>The Queen of Katwe<\/i> served as a homecoming of sorts for Nyong\u2019o.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt was so great to go back home,\u201d the actress said at D23 Expo in August. \u201cI\u2019m from East Africa. I\u2019m from Kenya, which is just next door to Uganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She added, \u201cThis is a story about the commitment to a dream even in the most discouraging of situations. The slum of Katwe is a very difficult place to live, but you see these people living there with dignity and making it day by day. And so to go there and to have that environment to work from really did sober us and enliven us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Queen of Katwe<\/em> is scheduled to open in the fall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: Entertainment Weekly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney has unveiled the first image from The Queen of Katwe, the biographical drama about a Ugandan chess prodigy starring Lupita Nyong\u2019o, David Oyelowo, and newcomer Madina Nalwanga. 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