When Whoopi Goldberg was invited to help produce an Emmett Till project, the actor thought she knew all about the Black teenager’s 1955 kidnapping and lynching — until she learned about the surprising elements behind the historic tragedy.
After Goldberg dove deep into Till’s backstory, she and her production teammates Barbara Broccoli and Fred Zollo eagerly pitched movie ideas to several major studios. All eventually turned them down. It became discouraging at times, but after more than two decades of trying to get the project green lit, Hollywood finally took notice in their project following George Floyd's death in 2020.
