20th Century Studios Selects 25-Year-Old Nigerian To Write, Direct Hollywood Movie
A Nigerian content essayist, Stanley Kalu has been chosen by the American diversion goliath, twentieth Century Studios to compose and coordinate a Hollywood film from Matthew Tobin Anderson’s fundamental novel, Feed. The film which reflects a tragic romantic tale will be created by Zachary Green to mark Kalu’s element directional introduction. As per The Hollywood…
A Nigerian content essayist, Stanley Kalu has been chosen by the American diversion goliath, twentieth Century Studios to compose and coordinate a Hollywood film from Matthew Tobin Anderson’s fundamental novel, Feed. The film which reflects a tragic romantic tale will be created by Zachary Green to mark Kalu’s element directional introduction.
As per The Hollywood on Friday, Feed is one of the most acclaimed YA books from the beyond twenty years seeking the film treatment.
Kalu is a prepared movie producer who as of late moved on from the College of Southern California and divides his time among Nigeria and Los Angeles, the US.
He came to the spotlight subsequent to winning The Send off: Million Dollar Screenplay Rivalry and having his content, The Eulogy of Tunde Johnson, transformed into a low-spending plan show that debuted at the Toronto Film Celebration in 2019 and opened the 2019 Austin Film Celebration and won the Audience Grant for debut story highlight at OutFest 2020.
It got a dramatic and PVOD discharge in 2021 and gathered a 2022 GLAAD Media Grants selection for an extraordinary film — restricted discharge.
Kalu as of late composed the Kenya Barris-created science fiction activity project One Night in Compton for Fundamental Players.
Anderson’s Feed, which Kalu gets ready to compose and immediate as a film, has been as of late named one of Time magazine’s 100 Best YA Books Ever.
It is set in a future tragic America, where web associations feed straightforwardly into the shopper’s mind.
The plot focuses on the unfurling romantic tale between Titus Dark, a normal youngster on an end of the week excursion to the moon, and Violet Durn, a smart young lady who has chosen to attempt to battle the feed. “The 2002 novel insightfully handled thoughts of commercialization go crazy, information mining and American rot.
It turned into a 2002 Public Book Grant finalist and got a 2003 distinction from the Boston Globe-Horn Book Grants for Fiction.
“A few quarters consider the book risky, and it made the American Library Affiliation’s rundown of 100 most often restricted and tested books consistently from 2010 to 2019.
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“Feed will be coordinated and delivered by means of Kalu and Green’s recently sent off Bantu Inc. standard, whose mission is to deliver socially significant movies from different producers, to make effective social change thanks to film and TV,” The Hollywood said.
