Akwaeke Emezi’s upcoming 2022 romance novel You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty is set to be adapted as a film. Amazon Studios won the highly competitive bidding battle, and Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society will develop. This marks the first major film property acquisition for Jordan. Emezi credits the title of the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — For Michael B. Jordan, timing is everything. So when the SAG award winner marched in a Los Angeles Black Lives Matter protest last month demanding that Hollywood drastically increase its diversity in the executive ranks, it was a moment he felt prepared for. ‘I think it’s always been brewing in me, […]
TORONTO (AP) — The starry based-on-a-true-story social-justice tale “Just Mercy” made a powerful impression in its world premiere Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival, drawing an emotional response for the courtroom drama led by Michael B. Jordan’s crusading attorney and Jamie Foxx’s wrongly imprisoned Death Row inmate. “Just Mercy” had been one of the […]
The first trailer for Just Mercy has been released by Warner Bros. Adapted from the 2015 New York Times best-selling memoir of attorney and activist Bryan Stevenson, the biographical drama follows Stevenson, played by Michael B. Jordan, as he takes on the case of Alabama’s death row inmate Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx). McMillian was accused […]
We’ve recently featured Marlon James’ eagerly anticipated new novel Black Leopard, Red Wolf on our curated list of literature by black authors that we’re most excited for this year. The book, which was only released days ago, will be adapted for the big screen by Warner Bros. and Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society. Black Leopard, […]
Creed II is not a movie about boxing. It’s about perseverance and balance. It’s about manifesting dreams. It’s about finding the resolve to continue chasing the thing that your heart must have even as you take on new roles and responsibilities. In the film, Adonis Creed, played by Michael B. Jordan, navigates his roles to […]
Black Panther’s Michael B. Jordan has landed a new project, and will produce a World War II action-drama called The Liberators, Variety reports. The historical film will be made through Jordan’s own entertainment company, Outlier Society Productions, along with Safehouse Pictures. Written by Madison Turner, The Liberators is based on the 761st Tank Battalion, a […]
“We are not born equal, so we must be made equal by the fire,” is one of the many unsettling lines from HBO’s new teaser trailer for Fahrenheit 451. Based on Ray Bradbury’s critically acclaimed 1953 novel by the same name, Fahrenheit 451 is set in a hopeless dystopian world where knowledge is considered […]