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Trayvon Martin film, docuseries in the works from Jay Z, Weinstein Co.
Entertainment Weekly ^ | March 23, 2017 | Oliver Gettell

Posted on 03/24/2017 1:59:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Jay Z and the Weinstein Co. are partnering to tell Trayvon Martin’s story on the big and small screens.

EW has confirmed that the rap mogul and the studio have secured the rights to two books about Martin, the unarmed black Florida teenager who was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer in 2012, igniting a national debate about racial profiling and civil rights.

The plan is to develop a narrative film and a six-part docuseries about Martin based on the books Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It, by civil rights attorney and NBC News analyst Lisa Bloom, and Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin, by Martin’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin.

Jay Z signed a first-look deal with TWC in the fall, and he and studio chief Harvey Weinstein produced the recent prison reform docuseries Time: The Kalief Browder Story. The Weinstein Co. also distributed the critically acclaimed 2013 film Fruitvale Station about the fatal shooting of another unarmed young black man, Oscar Grant.

Variety first reported the news.


TOPICS: Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: hollywood; jayz; trayvon; trayvonmovie; weinstein
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
igniting a national debate about racial profiling and civil rights.

Hardly. The left wants to pretend that Trevon Martin was hunted down like a dog, when in fact he (AND Michael Brown) died because he started a fight with a guy who had a gun.

21 posted on 03/24/2017 2:54:18 PM PDT by libertylover (In 2016 small-town America got tired of being governed by people who don't know a boy from a girl.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who’s going to play the ‘I don’t read cursive’ girlfriend? LOOOOOL!


22 posted on 03/24/2017 3:02:10 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!! Shadilay!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Note to self, plan to watch paint dry when the propaganda comes out..

Let's see, George Zimmerman will be an 100% Caucasian (not a Hispanic) who has a klan hood and the Confederate Battle Flag flying at his house. St. Trayvon will be a straight A+ student who got accepted at MIT... :-)

23 posted on 03/24/2017 3:27:42 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I expect to see the part where he approaches Zimmerman, and hands him a flower he picked off a hibiscus bush, and says;” Good evening Mr Zimmerman, are you enjoying your walk? Would you like to share my ice tea drink?”


24 posted on 03/24/2017 3:28:43 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Again it disapeared? Damn cursor is in cahoots with the tag line.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

How is that iced tea?

25 posted on 03/24/2017 3:32:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Deplorable American1776

They already went there.

26 posted on 03/24/2017 3:35:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: relictele

—burnt-out bulb known as Rachel Jenteal.-—

Malaria obama works for weinstein, maybe he’s grooming her to play the treyvon girlfriend part. She may have to learn to not read cursive though.


27 posted on 03/24/2017 3:37:14 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A celebration of Thug Life?
An homage to an aspiring MMA fighter?
A documentary on what Purple Drank does to the brain and liver?


28 posted on 03/24/2017 3:49:33 PM PDT by TigersEye (We all have a stake in MAGA! We all need to contribute our efforts.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
When will Hollywood give us movies we can be proud of? I guess if they made a movie remake of 'Leave It To Beaver', they have Beaver' as a crossdresser, Eddie Haskell as a black kid, Gus, Beaver's fireman friend, as a pedophile, Ward, as divorced on his 6th marriage, June, as a man hating lesbian...

Would you like how they would remake 'Gilligan's Island's or 'Gone With The Wind'? 😀

29 posted on 03/24/2017 3:58:29 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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30 posted on 03/24/2017 3:59:01 PM PDT by Bon mots (Laughing at liberal tears!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hollywood makes more money on the international market then domestically. So not only does it fit Tinseltown’s ideology to make anti-American movies it now it fits their ledger books!


31 posted on 03/24/2017 4:07:06 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Red Badger

...I can only imagine the sainthood they will bestow upon this street thug....

He will join St. Michael Brown in Thug Life Heaven.


32 posted on 03/24/2017 4:28:24 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Note: this topic is from 3/24/2017. Thanks and bon voyage 2ndDivisionVet.

33 posted on 02/23/2020 6:14:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let’s help them out with a tagline. How about;

“Suspend your belief in the truth.”

“Pay no attention to the trial results.”


34 posted on 02/23/2020 6:19:20 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

George Zimmerman is going to be rich from the lawsuits.


35 posted on 02/23/2020 6:20:49 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Will that Eugene Diamond girl make an appearance???


36 posted on 02/23/2020 6:27:28 PM PST by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe they can get Jessie Smollett to play Travon. I hear he needs the work.


37 posted on 02/23/2020 6:29:34 PM PST by greenishness
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