A new trailer has been released for Nickel Boys, based on Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. IndieWire reported that writer/director RaMell Ross (Hale County This Morning, This Evening) "has already been toasted as a filmmaker to watch this awards season" for his adaptation. Nickel Boys premiered December 13 in select theaters in New York, with a Los Angeles debut coming December 20. It will expand nationwide in January.
Ross, who co-wrote the script with Joslyn Barnes, received the Auteur Award at the 2024 IndieWire Honors event, where he said, "The film is not looking at the Black community, it's looking from the Black community. And that's a perspective I wasn't seeing often. Alternatively, I think this film and Colson Whitehead's novel is about justice on some level, not only visual justice but another justice, one for the young men of the Dozier School for Boys and their families. And this is really, really deeply true, we owe those young men for their stories not to be buried right next to them. It's such a tragedy, such a horrible story. At a time when we want to forget and ignore the ugly parts of American history, I wanted to create a loving and experiential monument to the [real life] Dozier School boys."
Nickel Boys is produced by Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, David Levine, and co-writer Barnes. Executive producers include Brad Pitt, Gabby Shepard, Emily Wolfe, Kenneth Yu, and Chadwick Prichard.