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Tag: Moonlight
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Barry Jenkins to adapt James Baldwin for ‘Moonlight’ follow-up

by Defender News Service

NEW YORK (AP) — Writer-director Barry Jenkins’ feature-film follow-up to his Oscar-winning “Moonlight” will be an adaptation of James Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk.” Annapurna Pictures announced Monday that Jenkins will start shooting the film in October. Jenkins said adapting Baldwin’s 1974 novel about love and injustice in 1970s Harlem is “a dream I’ve […]