‘Candyman’ Filmmaker Nia DaCosta to Direct Ta-Nehisi Coates Adaptation ‘The Water Dancer’ for MGM
thewrap.com“Candyman” director Nia DaCosta has found her next film and has been set to direct an adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book “The Water Dancer” for MGM.
Coates adapted the script based on his #1 New York Times Bestselling Novel of the same name. The film adaptation is being produced by Maceo-Lyn, Brad Pitt’s Plan B and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films. “The Water Dancer” follows Hiram Walker, born into bondage.
As a child, he loses his mother and, over time, loses all memory of her. Now a young man, Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a mysterious power he never realized he had and struggles to understand.“The Water Dancer” was a selection of Oprah’s Book Club and has over a million copies in print.
The book was published by One World, an imprint of Random House. DaCosta’s first film was “Little Woods” starring Tessa Thompson and Lily James, and she followed that up with “Candyman” from last August, which was also an MGM film though distributed by Universal.
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