The Color Purple Tony Winner Cynthia Erivo Will Star Opposite Viola Davis in the Film Widows

Well this is one way to celebrate completing a marathon. The Color Purple star Cynthia Erivo will join fellow Tony winner Viola Davis on the big screen for the thriller Widows, Variety reports. 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen will helm the film, which will feature a screenplay by Gone Girl scribe Gillian Flynn.

Based on the 1983 British miniseries, the film will follow a group of women who unite to pull off the heist that left their husbands—a group of armed robbers—dead. The original incarnation starred Ann Mitchell, Fiona Hendley, Maureen O'Farrell and Eva Mottley.

Erivo will join the project hot off the heels of her Tony-winning performance as Celie in The Color Purple. She'll take her final bow in the musical when the production closes on January 8, 2017. She has previously appeared on screen in the U.K. series The Tunnel and Mr. Selfridge. Her additional stage credits include I Can't Sing! in the West End, the U.K. tour of Sister Act and the recent one-night-only concert performance of The Last Five Years.

Davis, who won a Tony Award in 2010 for Fences, reprises her performance in the film adaptation of the August Wilson classic later this year. It is set to premiere on December 25.