Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton Announce New Relationship (Sadly It’s Only A Professional Film One..)

Frankly we have to admit we’ve become rather bored of late of the only news ever to appear about Queen Latifah (and we admit even we’ve done it a few times) being about how she has “finally come out” and then actually discovering that she hasn’t so it’s rather a delight to be able to have some confirmed news about the lady to report instead and it’s so much cooler than whether or not she’s a gay or not.

It’s the news that Ms Queen of Latifah is teaming up with gay icon of the universe Dolly Parton to make “Joyful Noise”, a gospel choir feature for Warner Bros. And before you say it no it’s not “Sister Act” with a different name. It’s completely different. Sort of.

Based in a small town that sees the town gospel choir under threat following budget cuts, the film sees Parton and Latifah appear to get equal billing with Latifah playing a no nonsense mother of two teens who is put in charge of the the choir following the death of the choir director whilst Parton plays the wife of the choir director who wrongly assumed she’d be getting said role. Cue very funny comedy moments (hopefully…)

Starting production in January, we see a sequel and a stage show on Broadway following shortly afterwards (no wait that’s Sister Act again isn’t it…)