On the heels of their collaboration last year for the musical "Annie," Jay Z and Will Smith are teaming up once again. The pair, along with Aaron Kaplan, signed on to executive-produce a mini-series about Emmett Till for HBO, reports Vulture.
Till was a 14-year-old African-American teen from Chicago who was lynched by a white mob in 1955 while visiting family in Mississippi. His family famously chose to have an open-casket funeral to show the brutal murder on Till. Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were acquitted of killing Till, later publicly admitting culpability after their trial, according to Entertainment Weekly. PBS produced a 2003 documentary called "The Murder of Emmett Till" that investigated the whole situation.
The untitled miniseries is now in active development and is described as an immersive and in depth exploration of the Emmett Till story. Search is underway for a writer to pen the project, likely a six-hour miniseries, reports Deadline. Roc Nation, Overbrook and Kapital Entertainment are the production companies tied to the project.
