Marcelo Zarvos - Fences (Music From The Motion Picture) (2017) [Hi-Res]

Fences was originally a 1983 play by American playwright August Wilson. Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson's ten-part "Pittsburgh Cycle". Like all of the "Pittsburgh" plays, Fences explores the evolving African-American experience and examines race relations, among other themes. The play won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play.

Washington directs Wilson’s own screen adaptation, about a retired baseball player named Troy Maxson (Washington), now working as a Pittsburgh garbage man, who’s regretful about how his life turned out. Davis plays Troy’s wife, Rose.

Previous attempts to adapt August Wilson's Fences for the screen have been fruitless, partly due to Wilson's insistence that the film be directed by an African-American. In a 2013 interview with Empire, Denzel Washington expressed his intention to star in and direct an adaptation of Fences, reprising his role from the 2010 Broadway revival of the play produced by Scott Rudin.

On January 28, 2016, it was reported that Rudin, Washington and Todd Black would produce a film adaptation of the play, directed by Washington and starring Washington and Viola Davis, reprising their roles from the 2010 revival that garnered both actors Tony Awards. Playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner came aboard to build on a draft written by Wilson before his death in 2005. However, Wilson will be the only credited screenwriter for the film.