Ellise Shafer editorOprah Winfrey and Brad Pitt are teaming up to produce a film adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ best-selling novel “The Water Dancer” for MGM, Variety has confirmed.Winfrey’s Harpo Films and Pitt’s Plan B will produce alongside Kamilah Forbes, who recently directed the theatrical adaptation of Coates’ “Between the World and Me,” as well as the HBO adaptation.
Plan B and Harpo Films recently collaborated on the Oscar-nominated film “Selma.” Coates has adapted the novel for the screen.“The Water Dancer” follows Hiram Walker, who was born enslaved and lost his mother at a young age.
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