The film based on the book “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead, is set to be released in cinemas on the 8th November.
The official trailer for RaMell Ross’s feature directorial debut Nickel Boys has now been released ahead of the film’s upcoming release in cinemas in the UK & Ireland this November.
Elwood Curtis’s college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he’s sentenced to the netherworld of Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory sunk deep in the Jim Crow South. He encounters another ward, the seen-it-all Turner. The two Black teens strike up an alliance: Turner dispensing fundamental tips for survival, Elwood, clinging to his optimistic worldview. Backdropped by the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement, Elwood and Turner’s existence appear worlds away from Rev. Martin Luther King’s burnished oratory. Despite Nickel’s brutality, Elwood strives to hold onto his humanity, awakening a new vision for Turner.
The film stars Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. It has a screenplay by RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes and music by Alex Somers & Scott Alario.
Colson Whitehead’s original story is based on the stories that emerged from infamous Dozier reform school in Florida, which operated from 1900 – 2011.
Nickel Boys has been produced by Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, David Levine, Joslyn Barnes, with executive producers including: Brad Pitt, Gabby Shepard, Emily Wolfe, Kenneth Yu and Chadwick Prichard.