Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films and Brad Pitt’s Plan B are teaming up to produce a film adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ novel “The Water Dancer” for MGM.
Set in the pre-Civil War South, the story follows Hiram Walker, born into bondage. He possesses amazing photographic memory but has no memory of his mother.
A car accident reveals to him a superpower called conduction, an ability to travel large distances and that is triggered by powerful memories of his mother. As he struggles to gain an understanding of this power, he becomes involved with the Underground Railroad and meets historical figures.
Coates adapted his own novel and Pitt, Winfrey, and Kamilah Forbes will produce. Forbes directed the theatrical event of Coates’ “Between the World and Me” which hits HBO Max later this month.
Source: THR
