Jay Z & Will Smith to Produce HBO Miniseries About Emmett Till

According to Variety:

Jay Z and Will Smith are teaming up to produce an HBO miniseries about Emmett Till.

Aaron Kaplan, Jay Brown and James Lassiter will also executive produce the project alongside Jay Z and Will.

In 1955, Emmett was 14 years old visiting relatives in Mississippi when he was kidnapped and brutally murdered by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam for allegedly whistling at a white woman. His face and body were so badly mutilated that his mother insisted on having an open-casket funeral to show the world what had happened to her son.

The project is currently untitled.