August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Piano Lesson is set to be made into a Netflix movie, starring Samuel L. Jackson and John David Washington, after completing a successful Broadway revival with Danielle Brooks. Denzel's son, Malcolm Washington, will direct the film adaptation of The Piano Lesson, based on a screenplay he co-wrote with Virgil Williams. Denzel Washington will produce the film with Todd Black. The film adaptation of The Piano Lesson follows LaTanya Richardson Jackson, who directs her husband Samuel L. Jackson on Broadway opposite Brooks and John David Washington in Wilson's stage drama about African Americans grappling with painful pasts.