The Rocky Horror Picture Show Dr. Frank N. Furter would be played by actress Laverne Cox. Ryan McCartan and Victoria Justice play the roles of Brad and Janet, alongside Reeve Carney as Riff Raff and singer/model Staz Nair as Rocky. Adam Lambert portrays Eddie. Tim Curry, who portrayed Dr. Frank N. Furter in the film, portrays the Criminologist. On 1 February 2016, it was announced that Broadway veteran Annaleigh Ashford would portray Columbia. On 5 February 2016, Ben Vereen joined the cast as Dr. Everett von Scott. Kenny Ortega, best known for the "High School Musical" franchise and "Michael Jackson's This Is It" (2009), directed,
Percival Everett novel, a metafictional piece, satirically revolves around a novella written by the main character entitled "My Pafology" then "Fuck", which emulates fiction like Richard Wright's "Native Son" and Sapphire's novel "Push". "A History of the African-American People (proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett and James Kincaid" (2004) is an epistolary novel that chronicles the characters Percival Everett and James Kincaid as they work with Thurmond (occasionally) and his aide's crazy assistant, Barton Wilkes. The latter orders the authors around even as he stalks them. Also in 2004, Everett released "American Desert" and "Damned If I Do: Stories",