Chinonye Chukwu’s Orion feature film Till has set Danielle Deadwyler as Mamie Till-Mobley and Oscar-winner Whoopi Goldberg as Emmett’s grandmother Alma Carthan.
Till follows Mamie Till-Mobley, whose pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son Emmett Louis Till became a galvanizing moment that helped lead to the creation of the civil rights movement. Mamie’s decision to have an open casket at Emmett’s funeral, and to have Jet magazine publish David Jackson’s funeral photos, was driven by her motivation to ensure people everywhere knew what had happened to her son.
Chukwu, whose Clemency won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival 2019, wrote the screenplay based on a previous draft by Keith Beauchamp and Michael J P Reilly. Beauchamp accumulated a bulk of research for his award winning 2005 documentary The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till. Producers are Beauchamp, Barbara Broccoli, Goldberg, Thomas K Levine, Reilly and Frederick Zollo.
Till follows Mamie Till-Mobley, whose pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son Emmett Louis Till became a galvanizing moment that helped lead to the creation of the civil rights movement. Mamie’s decision to have an open casket at Emmett’s funeral, and to have Jet magazine publish David Jackson’s funeral photos, was driven by her motivation to ensure people everywhere knew what had happened to her son.
Chukwu, whose Clemency won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival 2019, wrote the screenplay based on a previous draft by Keith Beauchamp and Michael J P Reilly. Beauchamp accumulated a bulk of research for his award winning 2005 documentary The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till. Producers are Beauchamp, Barbara Broccoli, Goldberg, Thomas K Levine, Reilly and Frederick Zollo.
- 7/23/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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