Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.Since the birth of cinema, movies have adapted plays and books for source material.
In recent years, comic books, video games and even podcasts have inspired feature films. Zola may be the first ever film adapted from a Twitter thread.A’Ziah King told the story in an infamous 2015 Twitter thread under her name @_zolamoon.
She began, “Y’all wanna hear a story about why me and this b**** here fell out????? It’s kind of long but full of suspense.”Janicza Bravo’s film adaptation recounts the story of how Stefani (Riley Keough) invited Zola (Taylour Paige) — both Detroit waitresses — to Florida for a dancing gig.
Stefani’s pimp, X (Colman Domingo), actually tried to set the girls up for sex work. Drugs, violence and more shady characters ensued before Zola escaped that situation.Bravo wanted to turn the thread into a movie as soon as she read it.
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