Amazon, Ridley Scott’s Scott Free and Epic are teaming on a characteristic in regards to the true story of poet and lawyer Reginald Dwayne Betts.
Betts, who was charged with a carjacking at a Virginia mall when he was 16 and tried as an grownup, spent almost a decade in jail. Now, in accordance with the undertaking’s description, “he’s an acclaimed poet, creator and Yale regulation grad whose software to the Connecticut state bar had been rejected, even after he handed the check, and after a number of years of battle he lastly has been admitted to follow regulation.”
Betts, who was named a 2021 MacArthur Fellow, additionally not too long ago launched a nonprofit, Freedom Reads, to present incarcerated folks entry to the facility of literature.
Veteran tv director Zetna Fuentes (This Is Us, Ray Donovan) will direct from a script by Aurin Squire, who at present acts as co-executive producer on Evil and The Good Struggle.
Scott and Kevin Walsh will produce for Free. Arthur Spector and Josh Davis will produce for Epic, part of Vox Media Studios. Government producers embrace Betts, Free’s Sam Roston and Epic’s Josh Bearman.
Betts is represented by CAA. Fuentes is represented by UTA, Vary Media Companions and Ziffren Brittenham. Aurin is represented by Grandview, UTA and Jackoway Austen. Epic is represented by CAA, Nameless Content material and Lichter Grossman.
