Will Smith And Jay-Z Will Come Together To Produce New Miniseries On Emmett Till

Will Smith And Jay-Z Will Come
Together To Produce New Miniseries On Emmett Till 

BHR Hollywood Reports................Will Smith and JAY Z will join forces once again to executive produce a miniseries about Emmett Till for HBO.

HBO miniseries about Emmett Till, the African American teenager who was tragically and brutally murdered in 1955 for reportedly asking a white woman on a date.

Emmett Till And His Mother

After allegedly flirting with a 21-year-old white co-owner of a Mississippi grocery store, Carolyn Bryant, Till was killed when Bryant’s husband Roy and his half-brother,

 J.W. Milam, showed up at the house of the 14-year-old teen’s great uncle and took him away, gouged out one of his eyes, shot him in the head and threw his body in the Tallahatchie River.

Till’s family had an open-casket funeral so everyone could see the brutal attack on his body.

Jay-Z And Will Smith 

Smith and JAY Z will work alongside Jay Brown, James Lassiter and Aaron Kaplan, who will also serve as executive producers.


The pair previously teamed up for last year's remake of Annie, starring Quvenzhané Wallis and Jamie Foxx, as well as 2009's Broadway production of Fela!

The untitled project, which hails from Kapital Entertainment, Overbrook Entertainment and Roc Nation, marks a reunion between Jay-Z and Smith, who were both producers on the 2014 feature remake of “Annie.”

The miniseries also serves as a homecoming of sorts to HBO for Jay-Z, as the cabler aired his concert special with his wife, “On the Run Tour: Beyoncé and Jay Z.”

In 2003 PBS produced an investigatory documentary on the Till case, “The Murder of Emmett Till.”