Hollywood has always been drawn to true stories. Yet, for almost two decades, it rejected the idea of a film about a Black mother’s fight for justice for her 14-year-old son, who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly flirting with a white woman.
Producer Barbara Broccoli told the Guardian that it has taken 18 years to get the film made, that she had tried repeatedly to interest studio executives in Mamie Till-Mobley’s struggle against racial terror, following the lynching of her child, Emmett Till, by white supremacists.
