Oprah and Brad Pitt are adapting Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Water Dancer.

It was announced earlier today that MGM is teaming with Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films, and director Kamilah Forbes on a film adaptation of National Book Award-winner Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2019 bestselling novel, The Water Dancer. Coates’ debut novel tells the story of Hiram Walker, a young man born into bondage on […] The post Oprah and Brad Pitt are adapting Ta-Nehisi Coates' The Water Dancer. first appeared on Literary Hub. Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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