2/13/2023 0 Comments Mira nair queen of katwe![]() ![]() ![]() He brought on Nair, who in turn recruited her Reluctant Fundamentalist screenwriter William Wheeler to punch up the script. I used all of the equity I had built at that moment to put forward this movie.ĭisney executive vice president of production Tendo Nagendaīut all the while he worked on Katwe. They just, like their protagonist’s signature move, had to be smart and aggressive. And they were going to get Disney-the home of Star Wars and Marvel and animated movies about lost fish-to make it. That day, in the bamboo grove of her garden, the two made a pact: They were going to make a movie about Phiona Mutesi, a chess champion from the Kampala slum of Katwe. “And I was like, ‘Oh, I’m with my family, do you want to meet tomorrow?’ She’s like, ‘No, just bring ‘em!’” “I called her from the street somewhere she said ‘Oh, I’m at home, why don’t you come up?’” Nagenda remembers. She didn’t mind she invited him over for tea. ![]() Mira Nair didn’t really know Nagenda, but he happened to be visiting family in her backyard in the Ugandan city of Kampala, so he called her out of the blue. It was winter 2013 the Disney exec had spent months quietly developing a movie about a young girl in Uganda who became an international chess star, and now he knew who he wanted to direct it. ![]()
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