Here the effect is more diffuse, and something intangible goes missing.
In his earlier books each paragraph felt like a bouillon cube that could be used to brew six other essays. The ride is bracing, even if one sometimes misses the grainy and intense intellection of his nonfiction writing. Coates writes as if he’s thrown his readers into a carriage and is hurtling them through the woods. The Water Dancer is a jeroboam of a book, a crowd-pleasing exercise in breakneck and often occult storytelling that tonally resembles the work of Stephen King as much as it does the work of Toni Morrison, Colson Whitehead and the touchstone African-American science-fiction writer Octavia Butler. This isn’t a typical first novel, if by 'typical first novel' we mean a minor-chord and semi-autobiographical nibbling expedition around the margins of a life.
Anderson’s novel Landscape With Invisible Hand, with producers Annapurna Pictures an original film from writer-director Lee Isaac Chung as well as feature adapations of bestselling author Chandler Baker’s The Husbands, with Kristen Wiig attached to star and produce, and New York Times bestselling author Lisa Taddeo’s Animal, which she will adapt for the screen, in her feature writing debut.The most surprising thing about The Water Dancer may be its unambiguous narrative ambition. Coates founded the production company Maceo-Lyn with his long-time friends and collaborators Kamilah Forbes and Kenyatta Matthews.Īdditional Plan B projects set up at MGM, as part of their overall second-look feature film deal with the studio, include writer-director Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Miriam Toews’ bestselling novel Women Talking, which Plan B produced with Hear/Say productions for MGM’s Orion Pictures writer-director Cory Finley’s adaptation of National Book Award winner M.T. Jordan starring, and Plan B producing alongside Proximity Media and New Regency Productions.
Coates is adapting the story for the screen, with Ryan Coogler directing, Michael B. T he Water Dancer marks the second collaboration between Plan B and Coates, who are also in development on the feature Wrong Answer, based on Rachel Aviv’s New Yorker story of the same name.
DaCosta is currently in post-production on the Marvel pic The Marvels, starring Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris and Iman Vellani, which is set for a 2023 release. Her follow-up feature Candyman, for MGM, was released by Universal Pictures last August. Stephanie Laing To Direct & EP Mike Daniels' NBC Pilot Based On Dutch Series 'Adam & Eva'ĭaCosta is an award-winning filmmaker whose debut feature Little Woods, starring Tessa Thompson and Lily James, was developed through the Sundance Institute, premiering to critical acclaim at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and securing a theatrical release via Neon.
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