Aunjanue L. Ellis & Four Others Set For RaMell Ross‘ Colson Whitehead Adaptation ‘The Nickel Boys’ For MGM’s Orion; Plan B, Anonymous Producing
Oscar-nominated filmmaker RaMell Ross (Hale County This Morning, This Evening) has been tapped to direct a feature adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys for MGM’s Orion Pictures, with Oscar nom Aunjanue L. Ellis (King Richard), Ethan Herisse (When They See Us), Brandon Wilson (The Way Back), Hamish Linklater (The Big Short) and Fred Hechinger (News of the World) set to star.