Whoopi Goldberg is producing a new movie on Emmett Till
Whoopi Goldberg, Keith A. Beauchamp and Frederick Zollo are teaming up to produce a film about Emmett Till’s murder in 1955.
According to reports, the movie titled “Till,” will go into production early next year. “Till” will be based on Beauchamp’s 2004 documentary “The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till,” and Simeon Wright’s “Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till.”
Emmett Till was an African American teenager who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14, after reportedly flirting with a white woman. Emett Till was originally from Chicago, Illinois and was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi when he spoke to Carolyn Byant. Several nights later, Bryant’s husband Roy and his brother went to Till’s house. They took Emmett Till away to a barn, where they reportedly beat him and gouged out one of his eyes, before shooting him through the head and disposing the body in the river. Three days later, Emmett Till’s body was discovered.
Thousands of people attended his funeral or viewed his casket. Despite publicly admitting to the killing in an interview, Bryant and his brother were both acquitted of Till’s kidnapping and murder.
This is the second production surrounding Emett Till announced this year. Earlier Jay-Z and Will Smith announced they were creating an Emmett Till mini-series for HBO.
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