For his film adaptation of Colson Whitehead's bestseller The Nickel Boys, director RaMell Ross largely tells the story using a subjective point of view, with the camera serving as the eyes of main characters Elwood (Ethan Herisse and Daveed Diggs) and Turner (Brandon Wilson).

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The film, which he wrote with Joslyn Barnes, was adapted from the 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead. It is produced by Louverture Films, Plan B and Anonymous Content, and stars Daveed Diggs, Aunjanue Ellis, Ethan Herisse, Fred Hechinger and Hamish Linklater. The film will release theatrically on October 25th for MGM-Orion.