Best-selling author Ta-Nehisi Coates tapped to script Warner Bros. new ‘Superman’ movie
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is penning another superhero story.
The Pulitzer Prize-nominated best-selling author, who has written the “Black Panther” and “Captain Marvel” comic books for Marvel since 2016, has been tapped to pen the script for a feature reboot of “Superman” that will be produced by J.J. Abrams.
“To be invited into the DC Extended Universe by Warner Bros., DC Films and Bad Robot is an honor,” Coates said in a statement to website Shadow and Act on Friday. “I look forward to meaningfully adding to the legacy of America’s most iconic mythic hero.”
Abrams praised the writer in the same statement.
“There is a new, powerful and moving Superman story yet to be told,” the director said. “We couldn’t be more thrilled to be working with the brilliant Mr. Coates to help bring that story to the big screen, and we’re beyond thankful to the team at Warner Bros. for the opportunity.”
Coates, 45, is the author of the acclaimed books “Between the World and Me,” “The Water Dancer,” “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy,” and “The Beautiful Struggle.”
“Between the World and Me” was adapted theatrically by Apollo Theater’s award-winning executive producer Kamilah Forbes, who recently transformed the memoir into a star-studded HBO film.
Released in 2015 by Random House’s One World imprint, the tome was written as a letter to Coates’ teenage son about the feelings, symbolism and realities associated with being Black in the United States.
Heralded by the likes of late literary icon Toni Morrison and media mogul Oprah Winfrey, “Between the World and Me” won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
“Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between the World and Me’ opened a window and changed the way many of us see the world,” Warner Bros. Pictures Group chairman Toby Emmerich said. “We’re confident that his take on Superman will give fans a new and exciting way to see the Man of Steel.”
A native of Baltimore, Coates is a Howard University alum and a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship recipient.
