‘Nickel Boys’ Trailer Stars Daveed Diggs, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor in Adaptation of Pulitzer-Winning Novel
The challenge of memory is the focus of the first trailer for Amazon MGM Studios’ forthcoming feature adaptation of Nickel Boys.
Director RaMell Ross’ film is set for a limited theatrical release on Oct. 25 before it begins streaming via Prime Video on a later date. Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor star in the adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2019 novel of the same name.
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Nickel Boys follows the friendship between two young men sent to a segregated reform school in Florida in the 1960s.
“I don’t know what more you want me to remember,” actor Sam Malone’s character says during a tense reunion in the trailer.
Ross helmed the film from a script he wrote with Maya Krinsky that is based on Whitehead’s book. Joslyn Barnes, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and David Levine serve as producers, while Brad Pitt is among the executive producers.
Nickel Boys premiered at the Telluride Film Festival last month and is set to open the New York Film Festival on Sept. 27.
In her review for The Hollywood Reporter, critic Lovia Gyarkye wrote that Ross “makes Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, a dexterous and moving account of two boys in a punishing Florida reform school, into his own. Here, the artist returns to and expands on some familiar themes: Black boyhood and masculinity, the anchoring force of community and, of course, the landscape and its secrets.”
Ross’ 2018 film, Hale County This Morning, This Evening, was nominated for the Oscar for best documentary feature.
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