NEW YORK — Director Barry Jenkins, whose movie Moonlight won this year’s best picture Oscar, is writing and directing a drama for Amazon based on a prize-winning novel about escaping from slavery. The Underground Railroad will be adapted from the book of the same name by novelist Colson Whitehead. The novel has sold over 825,000 copies and won a National Book Award, one of America’s most prestigious literary prizes. "Colson’s writing has always defied convention, and The Underground Railroad is no different," the director said in a statement Monday. Amazon, which is developing the series, has not given a release date for the drama, which is slated for production by the firms Pastel and Plan B, a company owned by Hollywood star Brad Pitt.

Source: Viet Nam News March 28, 2017 04:30 UTC