Girlfriends Star Khalil Kain added to the roster of Tyler Perry's 'For Colored Girls' movie

It has been recently reported that Khalil Kain (Girlfriends, Love Jones, Juice, Renaissance Man) has been casted in Tyler Perry's adaptation of 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Enuf'.

According to sources, his character will be paired with Tony Award winning 'Princess and the Frog' star Anika Noni Rose. He will join fellow actors Omari Hardwick, Isaiah Mustafa, and Richard Lawson as the men in the film.

Based on Ntozake Shange's award-winning 1975 play, 'Colored Girls' is scheduled to shoot in June 1st, 2010 in New York with a release date of  January 14, 2011.

Structurally, For Colored Girls is a series of 20 poems, referred collectively as a "choreopoem", performed through a cast of nameless women, each known only by a color: "Lady in Yellow", "Lady in Purple", etc.. The poems deal with love, abandonment, rape, and abortion. The performances of the seven actresses are focused on their specific stories;

Already cast in the movie are janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Whoopi Goldberg, Phylicia Rashad, Jurnee Smollett, Kimberly Elise, Kerry Washington, Loretta Devine, and Macy Gray. Other actors to be named later.

Kain broke out with his feature film debut playing opposite rapper Tupac Shakur and Omar Epps in Ernest Dickerson's Juice, which is considered to many as a hip hop classic.

I'm really excited about this film. As a huge fan and viewer of Shange and the play I am interested to see how will develop on the big screen! Such a powerful collection of stories that needs to be brought to the masses.