{"id":11996,"date":"2017-05-25T08:54:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T08:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shows4.com\/mobile\/?p=11996"},"modified":"2017-05-25T08:54:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T08:54:16","slug":"rihanna-lupita-nyongo-to-star-in-movie-on-twitteraties-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=11996","title":{"rendered":"Rihanna, Lupita Nyong&#039;o to star in movie on Twitteraties&#039; request"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shows4.com\/blog_hollywood\/article769_slide.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Singer Rihanna and actress Lupita Nyong\u2019o are set to star in a movie based on ia plot built up by Twitter users. Netflix has nabbed the untitled Rihanna and Lupita Nyong\u2019o project after a dramatic negotiation session at the Cannes Film Festival, reports ew.com. The concept of the movie surfaced when a photograph of Rihanna and Nyong\u2019o at a Miu Miu fashion show went viral on the micro-blogging website. A lot of fans of the two chanted the request for the two to work together on a storyline that social media users got down to weaving online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRihanna looks like she scams rich white men and Lupita is the computer smart best friend that helps plan the scans,\u201d a Twitter user had posted. It went viral and was then cheered by a lot of users. The users even asked filmmaker Ava DuVernay, who has directed \u201cA Wrinkle in Time\u201d, to direct the potential film. They also asked screenwriter Issa Rae to pen it. The four women soon responded to the requests, with Nyong\u2019o tweeting: \u201cI\u2019m down if you are Rihanna\u201d and Rihanna replied: \u201cI\u2019m in Pit\u2019z.\u201d DuVernay and Rae also gave positive responses to the project.<\/p>\n<p>Later on, representatives for Rae said the original Twitter users who imagined the concept for this film would be credited and included in some form.According to sources, Rae has started working on the script, with the studio eyeing a 2018 production start after DuVernay completes her current film.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_37422\"  width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  data-origwidth=\"1140\" data-origheight=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6NPov8ireiM?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>[instagram-feed id=&#8221;1472810507&#8243; showheader=&#8221;false&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Rihanna and actress Lupita Nyong\u2019o are set to star in a movie based on ia plot built up by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-hollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}