Ch… what have Will Smith & Jada Pinkett-Smith got this boy doing now?
Deadline has the exclusive report:
Liev Schreiber and Jaden Smith are set to star in The Good Lord Bird, a big-screen adaptation of the 2013 National Book Award winner by James McBride. McBride is aboard to produce the pic about The Good Lord Bird movie Henry “Onion” Shackleford (Smith), a young slave who links up with radical abolitionist John Brown (Schreiber) in 1856 Kansas and travels the nation with Brown’s motley crew of freedom fighters. Story is told with a satirical bent through the eyes of Onion, who wears a dress and is at first mistaken for a girl, as he bears witness to Brown’s historic campaign and encounters the likes of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman en route to the bloody Harper’s Ferry raid that helped spark the Civil War.
Even though ‘After Earth’ flopped in the box office…
Will you be seeing ‘The Good Lord Bird’?
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