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From Pages To Screen – Adaptations

Kennedy Ryan’s Before I Let Go In Development at Peacock With Malcolm Lee, Debra M. Chase and John Legend

Break out the bubbly ’cause Kennedy Ryan’s second-chance romance novel  ☛BEFORE I LET GO [pub: Forever/Grand Central Publishing] is in development at Peacock with some major heavy hitters involved. According to Deadline,  Malcolm Lee (The Best Man: The Final Chapters,

Cole Brown’s Greyboy: Finding Blackness In A White World Lands An ABC TV Series Development Deal

What a dream come true this is! It still astounds me to think that what began as a college essay a few years ago has made it all the way to ABC. No duo I’d rather work with to bring Greyboy to life than @yarashahidi & @chocolatemommyluv Let’s get to work!

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s Antiracism Books Are Coming To Netflix ✊🏾🎉

ICYMI: We’re raising our glasses for National Book Award-winning author and historian Dr. Ibram X. Kendi who announced on his Instagram last Friday that Netflix is adapting three of his antiracism books ☛STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING: THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF RACIST IDEAS IN AMERICA pub: Bold Type Books],

Oprah Winfrey And Brad Pitt Adapting Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Water Dancer For The Big Screen

New pages-to-screen alert! Oprah Winfrey and Brad Pitt are teaming up to adapt Ta-Nehisi Coates’ novel ☛THE WATER DANCER [pub: One World] into a film. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news yesterday.  The Water Dancer was Oprah’s first selection for her Apple book club. 

Barry Jenkins Releases Teaser For The Underground Railroad By Colson Whitehead

ICYMI: Oscar-winning director extraordinaire Barry Jenkins released a gorgeously stunning teaser entitled “Preamble” for his adaptation of Colson Whitehead‘s 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ☛THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD [pub: Doubleday Books] on Instagram yesterday. And in the words of actor RonReaco Lee,

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