‘American Fiction’: Read The Screenplay For Cord Jefferson’s Satire That Throws The Book At The Publishing World And Beyond
deadline.comDeadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with writer-director Cord Jefferson‘s feature film debut American Fiction.
Adapted from Percival Everett’s 2021 novel Erasure, American Fiction emerges as a hard-hitting commentary on identity, storytelling and the microaggressive terrains of the publishing industry.
With a powerhouse ensemble led by Jeffrey Wright and supported by Tracee Ellis Ross, Erika Alexander, John Ortiz, Leslie Uggams and Adam Brody along with Sterling K.
Brown and Issa Rae, the film aims to deconstruct that world as it relates to myriad facets of Black lives. It centers on Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (Wright), a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes.
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