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Whoopi Goldberg, Keith A. Beauchamp and Frederick Zollo are set to produce “Till”, a film about the murder of African American teen Emmett Till in 1955.
Thomas K. Levine, Paul Kurta and Susan Rose are also producing.
14-year-old Till was brutally tortured and murdered by a white woman’s husband and his half-brother after after he allegedly flirted with the 21-year-old woman.
The film will be based on Beauchamp’s 2004 documentary “The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till” and Simeon Wright’s “Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till.”
Production will kick off early next year (a Kickstarter campaign has been launched to raise funds for the shoot.)
A number of other Emmett Till projects are currently in the works: Jay Z and Will Smith are developing a HBO miniseries, Skyland Pictures and FireRock Bay Pictures are producing a film based on the play “The Face of Emmett Till”, and Shatterglass Films and Chaz Ebert have a movie in the works based on the book “Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America”.
