EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker and Snowfall actor Malcolm M. Mays has been tapped by Amazon Studios to write a new script for the film Steal Away about the daring theft and escape of Robert Smalls, a slave in 1862 Charleston, SC.Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep) is attached to direct with Cotty Chubb and George Plamondon producing.Mays recently wrote the reboot of New Jack City for Warner Bros., which we first reported, and is attached to write, direct and produce the feature Flint with John Ortiz and T.I.
attached to star. The film is described as a modern-day Chinatown set against the Flint, MI water crisis. Previously, Mays gained notoriety for his film Trouble, which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in at age 17 about the African American
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