EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is in early development on the feature adaptation of the Simon & Schuster Dwayne Alexander Smith novel Forty Acres which Luke Cage creator Cheo Hodari Coker will write and produce.Forty Acres follows a Civil Rights attorney must fight for survival when he’s invited to join an elite black organization with a mind-blowing secret; the thriller is described as being a cross between The Firm and Get Out.
Coker will produce alongside James Lassiter, Jay-Z and Kapital Entertainment’s Aaron Kaplan. Jay-Z and Lassiter recently produced the all-Black western movie The Harder They Fall for the streamer.
Executive producers on Forty Acres are Dana Honor for Kapital, Smith, Niles Kirchner, Bill Strauss and Mike Epps.This marks the
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