Will Smith and Jay Z will team up again to produce an HBO mini series about Emmett Till.
Entertainment Weekly reports the two, along with Jay Brown, James Lassiter, and Aaron Kaplan are executive producing the untitled mini series. Emmett Till was a 14 year old from Chicago sent to spend the summer in Mississippi. One evening, Till was kidnapped from his bedroom and savagely beaten by white men because he whistled at a white woman. At Till’s funeral, his mother had an open casket to showcase the brutality of her son’s death.
The duo were producers for the Broadway musical, Fela.
Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, the men responsible for Till murder were found not guilty of their crimes, but later publicly admitted their involvment. Currently there are no writers for the mini series or an expected release date.
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