JAY-Z is set to produce a film adaptation of Dwayne Alexander Smith’s 2014 novel Forty Acres for Netflix.
According to Deadline, the movie will follow a civil rights attorney fighting for survival when he’s invited to join an elite Black organization with a mind-blowing secret. The thriller is described as a cross between Jordan Peele’s Get Out and Tom Cruise’s 1993 movie The Firm.
Luke Cage creator Cheo Hodari Coker is on board as a writer, with Hov joined by James Lassiter, Aaron Kaplan, Niles Kirchner and Bill Strauss as producers. The author, Dwayne Alexander Smith, will also executive produce the film with Mike Epps and Dana Honor.
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JAY-Z and Lassiter recently collaborated as producers for another Netflix movie The Harder They Fall, starring Idris Elba, Zazie Beetz, Lakeith Stanfield and Regina King about a man who reunites his old gang for revenge against the man who killed his parents. Lassiter is known for his longtime partnership with Will Smith and producing a number of major features including I, Robot, The Pursuit of Happyness, I Am Legend and Seven Pounds.
Hov is also executive producing a six-episode limited series for ABC. Women of the Movement follows the story of Mamie Till Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till who devoted her life to seeking justice for her son following his 1955 killing in the Jim Crow South. Will Smith is attached as a producer along with Kaplan and Honor.
In other business moves, JAY-Z was recently named Chief Visionary Officer of cannabis companies Caliva and Left Coast Ventures, and plans to work on a criminal justice reform initiative with them.
“Although we know we can’t fully redeem the injustices created by the ‘war on drugs’, we can help shape a brighter and inclusive future,” he said. “The brands we build will pave a new path forward for a legacy rooted in equity, access, and justice. We’re creating something people can trust and we’re investing in our future, our people, and our communities.”
I’m tired of these same narratives..slavery..drugs ..peele is one of the only original story tellers out here for the black community. Time to start putting black people in some new light..cause when Hollywood does it the black guy dies first
Seems like Hova can do anything but rapping.
Great! Now we get to hear from another black man who grew up in the projects and sold crack that is now worth hundreds of millions of dollars about how difficult it is to get ahead in America for black people. SMH. Racism definitely held this guy back, here’s another shining example of systematic racism.
Now go cry and in the car you punk groupie bitch, you BIG mad!
Wish he would use his platform to show the brainwashed anything is possible! Don’t let politicians trap you inside of your own mind! Or are his political ties too deep? Didn’t Kamila Harris or joe Biden have another “playlist” with Jay on it LMAO
Wish ud’ use ur platform to quit bitin’ my shit and change ya fuckin name…LMAO
Nothing like a black supremacist 5 percenter making a movie about how bad white people are…
U Definitely said alot my dude…salute
Jay look like a clown with that hairstyle. He trying too hard to fit in with these younger dudes.
STILL BITIN
A racially charged movie that won’t even be good…that is exactly what America needs.
Just like Trump…
thats a hair don’t.
Reading all these negative comments, I am saddened to even say that you all must not know the story of Emmet Till or the underlying history of his mother fight for justice. Please be open enough to open your minds to spread this important part of our civil rights history to your youth. To be well rounded, we cannot forget not one minute of our history. Life for African Americans did not start in 2020.