Between The World and Me, the stage show based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ New York Times bestseller is getting a television adaptation at HBO.
The premium cable network is adapting the show and book to air as a special event this fall.
It will be directed by Apollo Theater Executive Producer Kamilah Forbes and exec produced by Coates and Susan Kelechi Watson (This Is Us). Oscar-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams (The Innocence Files) is producing through his One Story Up production company.
Originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater in 2018, the special will combine elements of that production, including readings from Coates’ book and will also incorporate documentary footage from the actors’ home life, archival footage, and animation.
The book, which was first published in 2015 by One World, is written as a letter to Coates’ teenage son and recounts the author’s experiences growing up in Baltimore’s inner city...
The premium cable network is adapting the show and book to air as a special event this fall.
It will be directed by Apollo Theater Executive Producer Kamilah Forbes and exec produced by Coates and Susan Kelechi Watson (This Is Us). Oscar-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams (The Innocence Files) is producing through his One Story Up production company.
Originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater in 2018, the special will combine elements of that production, including readings from Coates’ book and will also incorporate documentary footage from the actors’ home life, archival footage, and animation.
The book, which was first published in 2015 by One World, is written as a letter to Coates’ teenage son and recounts the author’s experiences growing up in Baltimore’s inner city...
- 7/23/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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