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RaMell Ross & His ‘Nickel Boys’ Team Talk “Surprise” Of Getting Their “Alternative” Colson Whitehead Adaptation Through The Hollywood Studio System — Contenders London
Amazon/MGM will launch Nickel Boys on December 13 in NYC and December 20 in LA.
“Orion, Plan B, Louverture, and Anonymous are maybe the only group of people who could make this happen,” director and artist RaMell Ross said of the team of Hollywood execs behind his latest feature-length project Nickel Boys. Adapted from Colson Whitehead ’s Pulitzer-winning novel of the same, the pic, which Ross co-wrote with Joslyn Barnes, follows the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida. “Coming from an art and documentary background, you often hear that the studio process is not inviting to the type of imagination that challenges audiences at fundamental levels,” Ross said.
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