Nia DaCosta To Direct Adaptation Of Ta-Nehisi Coates Novel ‘The Water Dancer’ For MGM, Plan B, Harpo Films & Maceo-Lyn
deadline.comNia DaCosta (Candyman) has been tapped to direct an adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2019 debut novel The Water Dancer for MGM, Plan B, Harpo Films and Maceo-Lyn.Coates’ #1 New York Times bestseller follows Young Hiram Walker, who was born into bondage.
As a child, he loses his mother and over time loses all memory of her. Now a young man, Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a mysterious power he never realized he had and struggles to understand.Oprah Winfrey named The Water Dancer as her first Oprah’s Book Club selection in partnership with Apple.
It has also been named one of the best books of the year by such publications as Time, NPR, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Vanity Fair and Esquire.
The title from Random House imprint One World has over a million copies in print. Coates is adapting it for the screen, with his company Maceo-Lyn set produce alongside Plan B and Winfrey’s Harpo Films.DaCosta is an award-winning filmmaker whose debut feature Little Woods, starring Tessa Thompson and Lily James, was developed through the Sundance Institute, premiering to critical acclaim at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and securing a theatrical release via Neon.
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