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Lakeith Stanfield will star in the film adaptation of the movie "Notes of a Young Black Chief", written by the US-Nigerian leader Kwame Onwuachi, with A24 on board to finance the film.
Randy McKinnon will adapt the text of the memoir, written by Onwuachi and Joshua David Stein. Knopf recently acquired the rights to publish the memoir and the film rights were resumed shortly thereafter.
Stephen "Dr" Love will produce, along with Stanfield and Colin Stark, executive producer. No director is still attached.
The story follows the unprecedented journey of Onwuachi since childhood in the Bronx with a mostly single mother at the opening of a gourmet restaurant in Washington DC at the age of 26. The story tells the ups and downs of his career to become a chef in a white, elitist industry, which finances his first restaurant business by selling sweets in the subway, listed on "Top Chef", and his first restaurant Shaw Bijou in Washington, which closes 11 weeks after it opens.
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Stanfield had a blistering year in several films, including "Sorry to Bother You," the thriller "Knives Out" and the FX series "Atlanta." He recently completed production of Universal's "The Photograph" and A24's "Uncut Gems" is also set to debut this year.
McKinnon has set up feature film projects with Annapurna, Disney and Paramount. He also wrote for Netflix "Chambers" and for Simon Kinberg's upcoming Apple series "War of the Worlds".
Among the achievements of Love include the upcoming movie "They Cloned Tyrone" for Netflix, "Assisted Living" for Paramount and the first feature film by Steven Caple Jr. "The Land". He is represented by CAA and Morris Yorn.
CAA negotiated the deal on behalf of Onwuachi, Stanfield, McKinnon and Love. Onwuachi is also represented by Lori Galvin at Aevitas Creative Management and Stanfield by Stark Management and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis LLP. McKinnon, which is led by Grandview, is also represented by Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer et al., And Love is also represented by Morris Yorn.
(Pictured: Lakeith Stanfield, Kwame Onwuachi)
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