Nia DaCosta will direct the feature film adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ best-selling novel TheWaterDancer
DaCosta directed last year’s horror hit “Candyman” and is also stepping into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with her next feature, the upcoming “The Marvels.” Her first film, “Little Woods,” starred Tessa Thompson and Lily James and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2018 before getting released theatrically by Neon.
Winfrey named “The Water Dancer” as her first Oprah’s Book Club selection in partnership with Apple, and the book has been named one of the best books of the year by the likes of NPR, The Washington Post and Vanity Fair. It is published by One World, an imprint of Random House, and has over a million copies in print.
Plan B has several projects set at MGM as part of its overall second-look feature film deal with the studio, including Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Miriam Toews’ novel “Women Talking”; Cory Finley’s adaptation of M.T. Anderson’s novel “Landscape With Invisible Hand”; and an original film from “Minari” writer and director Lee Isaac Chung.
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