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Tyler Perry to Write, Direct and Star in Good Deeds Movie

Tyler Perry
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
Tyler Perry
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Tyler Perry will write, direct, and star in the romantic drama Good Deeds, according to a report in Variety. Production on the project is scheduled to begin at the end of April in Atlanta.

In the film, he will play an affluent entrepreneur, who, just as he’s about to get married, becomes enamored with a single mom who’s down on her luck.

Perry recently toured the country in in his play, Madea’s Big Happy Family. Among the Madea films are Madea’s Family Reunion and Madea Goes To Jail. He also directed the film For Colored Girls.