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A Sense of Doubt blog post #2101 - Between the World and Me to HBO Max
Between The World And Me, based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ #1 New York Times bestselling account, is coming to HBO as a special event.
First published in 2015, Between The World And Me was written as a letter to Coates’ teenage son, and recounts the author’s experiences growing up in Baltimore’s inner city and his growing fear of daily violence against the Black community. The narrative explores Coates’ bold notion that American society structurally supports white supremacy.
Based on the 2018 adaptation and staging of the book at the Apollo Theater, the HBO Special will combine elements of the Apollo’s production, including powerful readings from Coates’ book, and incorporate documentary footage from the actors’ home life, archival footage, and animation. It will include appearances by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Mahershala Ali, Angela Bassett, Angela Davis, Alicia Garza, Tip “T.I.” Harris, Jharrel Jerome, Mimi Jones, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Ledisi, Janet Mock, Jason Moran, Joe Morton, Wendell Pierce, Phylicia Rashad, Greg Alverez Reid, Mj Rodriguez, Kendrick Sampson, Yara Shahidi, Nate Smith, Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, Courtney B. Vance, Olivia Washington, Pauletta Washington, Susan Kelechi Watson, Michelle Wilson and Oprah Winfrey.
Between The World And Me will be directed by award-winning director and Apollo Theater Executive Producer Kamilah Forbes, who also serves as an executive producer alongside Coates and Susan Kelechi Watson. Roger Ross Williams and his production company One Story Up will produce.
https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/trailer-for-hbo-adaptation-of-ta-nehisi-coates-between-1845675190
Trailer for HBO Adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me Promises a Gripping Production This November
The promised
HBO adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ award-winning nonfiction work Between The World and Me is
set to premiere in a matter of days, and the network has released a stunning
trailer to further build anticipation.
The
trailer features a veritable who’s-who of Black Hollywood. As previously reported by The Root, the cast for the film
includes a list of veteran actors like Angela Basset, Courtney B. Vance, Oprah
Winfrey, Mahershala Ali, and Wendell Pierce, as well as relative newcomers like
Kendrick Sampson, Yara Shahidi, and Mj Rodriquez. Ledisi, Black Thought, and
T.I., are among the musical artists who feature in the special.
There’s
also well-known activists shown reciting Coates’ words, written in the form of
a treatise to his Black son about his experiences as a Black man in America.
Angela King leads off the trailer, her recognizable voice declaring, “Black is
beautiful, the Black body is beautiful. And we must never submit our original
self.”
Other scenes from
the special—which will feature documentary footage from the actors’ home life,
archival footage, and animation according to HBO—include images of Howard
University (whose “mecca” Coates’ speaks powerfully of in the book), dashcam
and cell phone footage of police brutalizing Black people, and clips from this
summer’s protests against racism and police violence.
Coates
himself also shows up in the trailer for the film, which he executive produced
alongside Susan Kelechi Watson and director Kamilah Forbes, who was behind a
2018 stage adaptation of Between the
World and Me at the Apollo Theater.
An
early review of the film by IndieWire praises Forbes for
“combining powerful performances with elements of the Apollo’s production,
which primarily comprised of actors performing passages as a band played in the
background,” and adds that it’s worth watching even if you’ve already read the
book.
Between the World and Me will premiere Saturday
November 21 at 8pm on HBO Max.
Writer, speaker, finesser, and a fly dresser. Jamaican-American currently chilling in Chicago.
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