Zola which debuts today, both are true.Like everyone else on October 27, 2015, Bravo was enthralled by Aziah “Zola” King’s fascinating road trip tale.
Just 10 or 15 tweets in to reading the saga that night, the director tells us, “I forwarded it to both my agent and my manager and I said, ‘I don’t know how this works.
I don’t know if there is such a thing as Twitter IP, but I want this.'”Seventy-two hours later, Bravo’s team got back to her with a game plan on how to use Rolling Stone’s retelling of the story to acquire King’s life rights and make movie magic, but by that time there were multiple bidders gunning for the project, Bravo explains. “I throw my name in the hat, but I’m the least sexy name in the hat at that time, right.
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