Get the latest gossip
New York Film Festival Sets RaMell Ross’ ‘Nickel Boys’ as Opening Night Movie
New York Film Festival has set RaMell Ross's "Nickel Boys" as its opening night film.
“Nickel Boys” is adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel and stars Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. Herisse and Wilson play Elwood and Turner, whose close friendship helps sustain their hope even as the horrors mount around them at the Nickel Academy, which becomes a microcosm of American racism in the mid-20th century. Recent NYFF opening night films have included Todd Phillips’ soapy drama “May December,” Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise” adaptation, Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock” and Martin Scorsese’s crime epic “The Irishman.”
Or read this on Variety