Plan B's Dede Gardner and Louverture's Joslyn Barnes collaborated with writer/director Ross to create a unique point-of-view language for adapting Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
In adapting Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Nickel Boys,” director RaMell Ross faced what he calls a “terrifying feat.” The pressure of bringing onto the screen such a highly ...
Colson Whitehead's 2019 novel The Nickel Boys follows the studious and idealistic Elwood Curtis, a Black teenager whose prized possession is a recording of speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. But when ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys has been adapted for the big screen. In 2019, Whitehead spoke with Dave Davies when the book was released. It's set in the early '60s ...
When the filmmaker and photographer RaMell Ross first read “The Nickel Boys,” Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two Black boys in a dangerous reform school in the 1960s, he ...
The new movie "Nickel Boys" offers a shift in perspective on the big screen. The story is an adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer prize-winning novel about the friendship between two boys at an ...
Colson Whitehead, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author who was slated to deliver a keynote speech at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s undergraduate commencement ceremony this month, has ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Colson Whitehead’s latest literary honor feels very much at home. The author’s “Crook Manifesto,” a crime story set in 1970s Harlem and centered on a beleaguered furniture store owner, ...