Amazon MGM and Orion/Plan B have pushed the discharge date of “Nickel Boys,” and the movie will now debut Dec. 13 in New York and Dec. 20 in Los Angeles, the businesses introduced on Wednesday. The movie was initially scheduled to launch Oct. 25 in New York Metropolis and Nov. 1 in Los Angeles.
Directed by RaMell Ross, who additionally wrote the screenplay with Joslyn Barnes, “Nickel Boys” is tailored from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2019 novel. The movie is produced by Plan B Leisure’s Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner in addition to Barnes and David Levine.
The movie stars Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson as youngsters in Jim Crow-era Florida who endure barbaric abuse whereas wards of a juvenile reform heart that Whitehead primarily based on the infamous Dozier Faculty, which was run by the state of Florida from 1990-2011. Over years of investigations, forensics documented practically 100 deaths on the faculty and found virtually as many unmarked graves on the varsity’s grounds.
Different members of the movie’s forged embody Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor.
The movie not too long ago had its world premiere at Telluride and opening evening on the New York Movie Competition. In her overview of the movie, The Wrap’s Carla Renata wrote, “This may sound like another Black trauma porn motion picture sanctioned by Hollywood to exploit Black history for financial gain. Thankfully, through the lens of Ross, this narrative doesn’t fall into that trap we have seen for decades. Ross — mostly known for his Oscar-nominated documentary “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” — brings his distinctive cinematic sensibility, permitting audiences to expertise any such story from a sensory perspective.”
She added: “‘Nickel Boys’ hearkens back to a time that unfortunately still exists in some areas of America, even today. It is a hard, yet necessary watch laying out in a million ways how Black people are constantly victims of a classic case of injustice — injustice that often only happens to just us.”
