This October, Jenkins will begin production on If Beale Street Could Talk, a feature film adaptation of James Baldwin‘s acclaimed 1974 novel.
If Beale Street Could Talk will mark Jenkins’ first collaboration with Annapurna and a re-teaming of Moonlight’s producing team, PASTEL and Plan B.
If Beale Street Could Talk tells the story of Tish, a newly engaged Harlem woman who races against the clock to prove her lover’s innocence while carrying their first-born child.
Jenkins, who has wanted to make the film for many years, wrote the If Beale Street Could Talk screenplay during the same summer sojourn in 2013 when he penned Moonlight.