RaMell Ross, who directed Nickel Boys based on the Colson Whitehead novel, believes the prolific writer gave his blessing to the film adaptation. “As far as I know, Colson Whitehead is the writer who, like, wants to write, and do that.
And so, I talked with [producers] Jeremy [Kleiner] and Dede [Gardner], like, I can’t believe, you know, he’s letting me do this.
I get his email address. Write him an email. A really long one. Overly verbose, I’m sure you can imagine. ‘I always wanted to be a writer’ type of thing.
Which is true,” Ross said after a screening of Nickel Boys, which will open the New York Film Festival tonight. “And then he writes back. ‘Appreciate it, congratulations and good luck.’” “And at first I was like, literally, way too many words, really.
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