Till is based on civil rights filmmaker Keith A. Beauchamp’s 2005 documentary The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, which led the United States Department of Justice to reopen the case in 2004.
Deadline brings word that Jesse Williams (Grey’s Anatomy, The Cabin in the Woods, Random Acts of Violence) will be making his feature directorial debut with Till, a docudrama that will center around Mamie Mobley Till, the mother of Emmett Louis Till, a black teen who was lynched after being accused of flirting with a white woman in the southern Jim Crow-era.
Production on the project is set to begin in summer 2019 with the support of the Till family.
Carolyn Bryant-Donham, the woman at the center of Emmett’s case, admitted decades later to fabricating her testimony surrounding her interaction with Emmett.