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Broadway.com reports:

Diego Luna will star in the previously announced film adaptation of Kander and Ebb’s Kiss of the Spider Woman with Jennifer Lopez. The movie is to be written and directed by Dreamgirls director Bill Condon, with Barry Josephson, Tom Kirdahy and Greg Yolen producing in conjunction with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon for Artists Equity.

The Tony-winning 1993 musical starring Chita Rivera (which tied for Best Score with The Who’s Tommy and earned book writer Terrence McNally his first Tony Award) was inspired by a 1976 novel by Argentine writer Manuel Puig. The novel also inspired a 1985 drama film starring William Hurt, Raul Julia and Sônia Braga.

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