![]() ![]() ![]() Plan B Entertainment, Anonymous Content and Joslyn Barnes of Louverture Films are producing “The Nickel Boys,” and Whitehead serves as an executive producer. Vance Wages War Against Chicago’s Corrupt Police Department in AMC Drama ![]() Alternating between 1960s Tallahassee and the 2010s, the story follows Elwood Curtis, a Black man who survived the school and is now determined to give his testimony about what happened there following a university investigation. “The Nickel Boys” is Whitehead’s follow-up to his other Pulitzer winner, “The Underground Railroad.” Though the book is fiction, it’s based on the real story of a Florida reform school that, over 111 years, hid decades of abuse against its residents and even had bodies secretly buried on its campus. Hamish Linklater (“The Big Short”) and Fred Hechinger (“The Woman in the Window,” “The White Lotus”) will also co-star. The studio has tapped RaMell Ross, an Oscar nominee for the documentary “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” to direct the film, and Ross also co-wrote the screenplay alongside Josyln Barnes (“Zama,” “Memoria”).Įllis will lead the cast alongside up-and-coming actors Ethan Herisse (“When They See Us”) and Brandon Wilson (“The Way Back”), who will anchor and lead the film’s young cast. “King Richard” star Aunjanue Ellis is set to star in an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “ The Nickel Boys” being set up at MGM’s Orion Pictures. ![]()
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