{"id":16919,"date":"2026-05-16T22:05:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/how-the-effed-up-fairy-tale-of-is-god-is-went-from-stage-to-screen-rolling-stone\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T22:05:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:05:46","slug":"how-the-effed-up-fairy-tale-of-is-god-is-went-from-stage-to-screen-rolling-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/how-the-effed-up-fairy-tale-of-is-god-is-went-from-stage-to-screen-rolling-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"How the \u2018Effed-Up Fairy Tale\u2019 of \u2018Is God Is\u2019 Went From Stage to Screen – Rolling Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy \tCT Jones<\/a> \t\t\t\t\t\t
\tWhat’s that famous saying about hell hath no fury? Well, keep the woman scorned and add  two scarred twins sent on a bloody odyssey to kill the father who maimed them and you’re just at the precipice of capturing all the gory, raucous intrigue of Is God Is. <\/em>
\t“This is an epic family drama where the blood flies. I very intentionally wanted it to feel like an effed-up fairy tale,” says writer-director Aleshea Harris, who adapted the film from her hit 2018 off-Broadway play of the same name. “<\/em>While I think it invites real conversations about femicide, mental abuse, trauma, and what seeking revenge cost the revenge seeker, it also holds the catharsis [of seeing] Black women’s rage center-stage, without apology.” 
\tIs God Is <\/em>(out now) follows fraternal twins Racine (Kara Young) and Anaia (Mallori Johnson) as they transform from down-on-their-luck orphans to newly claimed daughters with a righteous mission. Both are burned from a house fire their father (Sterling K. Brown<\/a>) started, one they believe killed their mother Ruby (Vivica A. Fox). When an out-of-the-blue letter reveals their mother is in fact alive, barely, they take on her deathbed mantle: to “make your daddy dead.” The twins must journey through a gothic version of the Deep South, tracking down another broken family their father left in his wake, to try and exact revenge. But how far is too far?  \t<\/p>\n

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