Director Barry Jenkins ('Moonlight') teased a preview of his new Amazon Prime Video series, 'The Underground Railroad,' based on Colson Whitehead's novel.
Barry Jenkins says it’s about time Hollywood pays attention to black novels. ‘Beale Street’ is just a start
When Barry Jenkins decided in 2013 that he absolutely needed to adapt James Baldwin’s novel “If Beale Street Could Talk,” the director had made just one ultra-low-budget feature, and he certainly didn’t have the book rights from Baldwin’s estate. “There haven’t been enough of these [films made from Black literature] and they were few and far between,” Jenkins
in 2018. “I don’t want to sound as though every novel by a Black author should be translated to the screen, but damn sure many more of them should be.“For many white audience members, this might be the first time they’ve met the unbroken gaze of an African American,” Jenkins said. “Even when you read a book you can’t feel that connection, but here it becomes unbreakable.”
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