Director Kasi Lemmons Brings All-Female WWII Soldiers Novel to the Big Screen

Filmmaker Kasi Lemmons, best known for her Academy nominated film Harriet will adapt and direct Maaza Mengiste’s historical fiction novel The Shadow King. According to Deadline, the story of The Shadow King, will be about the Ethiopian women soldiers, left out of the historical record, who went to battle against Mussolini’s invading…