Orion Footage — the MGM label headed by Alana Mayo — has acquired the function directorial debut of Watchmen author Wire Jefferson. Jeffery Wright stars within the mission from Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman’s T-Avenue and MRC.
Primarily based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett, the film facilities on Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, a author and English professor whose writing profession has stalled as a result of his work isn’t deemed “Black sufficient.” The outline for the mission continues that Monk “writes a satirical novel below a pseudonym, aiming to put naked the hypocrisies of the publishing world. The e-book’s rapid success forces Monk to get deeper enmeshed in his assumed id and challenges his closely-held worldviews.”
Jefferson tailored the novel for the display screen.
The mission, which lately wrapped filming in Boston, can even star Tracee Ellis Ross, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Sterling Okay. Brown, Myra Lucretia Taylor, John Ortiz, Issa Rae and Adam Brody.
T-Avenue’s Ben LeClair and Nikos Karamigios produced, with Jermaine Johnson of 3Arts and Jefferson.
“As longtime followers of Wire, we’re thrilled to be part of his function movie debut and for the chance to share his imaginative and prescient with world audiences,” Could stated in a press release. “His adaptation of Everett’s biting novel and Jeffrey’s sensible tackle the character, together with this extremely gifted solid, create an exquisite alchemy to inform this story.”
