Nilo Cruz

Precious director to develop big-screen adaptation Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play

THR reports that Precious director Lee Daniels has signed on to develop and direct a film adaptation of Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer and Steinberg Prize-winning Broadway play Anna in the Tropics, which is being produced by John Torres Martinez and Joe Lamy of Austin-based Mankind Entertainment. Anna in the Tropics is set in 1920s Tampa, which ….