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MGM teams up with Plan B, Harpo Films, and Kamilah Forbes on film adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2019 hit novel The water dancerthe studio said on Tuesday. Coates will adapt the screenplay and Kamilah Forbes, Plan B and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo will produce.
Coates’ first work of fiction (he won the National Book Award in 2015 for Between the world and me) enters Hiram Walker, born into slavery in Virginia. As a child, he loses his mother and over time loses all memory of her. Now a young man, Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a car in a river, but is saved from the depths by a mysterious power he never realized and struggles to understand.
Winfrey did The water dancer one of her picks from the Oprah Book Club. Son Harpo and Plan B have already collaborated on the 2014 Martin Luther King photo Selma which was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture.
Forbes developed and directed the theatrical version of Between the world and me at the Apollo Theater and the Kennedy Center and also directed Between the world and me for HBO.
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