Six years ago, Arizona grandmother Wanda Dench thought she texted her grandson to check if he would be coming over for Thanksgiving dinner.
Apparently she had the wrong cell phone number and actually texted Jamal Hinton, a high school senior at the time who accepted her invitation anyway.
The accidental text message turned into an unlikely friendship with Hinton now attending Dench’s dinner every year for an annual reunion.
The invitation was extend to Hinton’s girlfriend and his family to partake in the yearly festivities, and became more poignant when Dench’s husband died in April last year from COVID-19 complications.
Now Netflix plans to adapt the story into the feel-good feature film “The Thanksgiving Text” with Dench and Hinton in a statement expressing support and excitement for the upcoming film.
Abdul Williams (“Salt-N-Pepa”) is writing the screenplay while Robert Teitel and George Tillman, Jr. will produce. No cast or director is yet set.
Source: Variety
