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‘Nickel Boys’: Read The Screenplay By RaMell Ross And Joslyn Barnes That Reimagined A Pulitzer-Winning Novel For The Big Screen
Nickel Boys was written by director RaMell Ross and longtime collaborator Joslyn Barnes who adapted Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-wining 2019 novel.
Whitehead’s novel follows the friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Jim Crow Florida. The book features a penal institution for juvenile offenders that Whitehead calls the Trevor Nickel Academy but is based on the notorious real-life Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, FL. Ross, also professor of visual art at Brown University, described the movie as an “alternative” adaptation that he was surprised made it through the studio system, after first being introduced to Whitehead’s book five years ago during a meeting with producer Plan B Entertainment.
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