Beloved Film Critic Roger Ebert's Widow Chaz Ebert Is Executive Producing A Film About 1950s Murder Victim Emmett Till.
The movie will be based on the book Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America, which was written by Till's mother Mamie Till-Mobley and award-winning journalist Christopher Benson.
The African-American teenager was murdered in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
Ebert says, "The full Emmett Till story needs to be told now and told well as a narrative for our times, given all that is happening on American streets today..."
The project will be shot Chicago, the Mississippi Delta and Central Illinois next year (16).
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