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To The Movies; THE GOOD LORD BIRD

The Good Lord BirdLast year’s National Book Award winner, The Good Lord Bird by James McBride (Penguin/Riverhead; Dreamscape Audio; Thorndike) may be heading to the big screen. Liev Schreiber and Jaden Smith (The Karate Kid, After Earth) have signed to star, with author McBride taking on a role as producer. Smith will play Henry “Onion” Shackleford with  Schreiber in the role of abolitionist John Brown.

McBride’s’ Miracle At St. Anna (Penguin/Riverhead, 2002) was adapted by Spike Lee in 2008. An FX series based on the author’s book Song Yet Sung, (Penguin/Riverhead, 2008), about Harriet Tubman, was announced last fall.

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One Response to “To The Movies; THE GOOD LORD BIRD”

  1. Wendy Bartlett Says:
    April 16th, 2014 at 11:26 am

    Fingers crossed!! I loved this book, and in the right hands it would be a brilliant movie.