EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures has acquired global rights to Ghost Boys, Jewell Parker Rhodes’ 2018 novel for young readers that weaves genres to explore what happens after a Black child is killed by a white police officer.Amy Baer (Last Vegas, Brian Banks, Mary Shelly) and Michael Besman (About Schmidt, Seven Years in Tibet, Bounce) have come aboard to develop and produce a feature film based on the New York Times bestseller.
Baer’s associate Chris Ceccotti will executive produce along with ESMP’s Byron Allen, Carolyn Folks and Jennifer Lucas. The project is now out to writers to adapt.The novel, published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, tells the story of 12-year-old Jerome, who is shot by a Chicago police
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