Insecure’s Melina Matsoukas To Direct Universal’s ‘City Of Saints & Thieves’Posted by Wilson Morales
September 26, 2017
Source: Deadline
Deadline is reporting that Insecure‘s chief director and exec producer Melina Matsoukas will direct the upcoming film City of Saints & Thieves, based on Natalie C. Anderson’s debut novel.
With Will Packer’s Will Packer Productions and Kerry Washington’s Simpson Street on board as producers, writers Chloe Castellón and Ridgeway Wilson have been hired to adapt the screenplay.
The story centers on the protagonist Tina, a girl who has been living on the streets of Kenya since her mother’s murder. Recruited by a gang of orphans and street kids, Tina gets closer to exacting revenge for her mother’s death, but soon discovers that she may not have all the facts.
James Lopez, Packer’s Head of Motion Pictures, will also produce.
