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[torre_avenue]

Per Deadline,

The Fruitvale Station and Creed team of director Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan are reuniting on Wrong Answer, the true story of how Atlanta high school educators participated in an intricate, systemic standardized-test cheating scandal in 2013. The film has been set at New Regency and Plan B, and Ta-Nehisi Coates will write a script that is based on a 2014 The New Yorker article by Rachel Aviv. Coogler will produce with Plan B’s Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, and New Regency’s Arnon Milchan. New Regency will finance the project.

Coogler and Jordan first talked about wanting to make this movie while promoting Creed. It is not a simple corruption story, by any means. Coogler will direct Jordan in the role of Damany Lewis, a math teacher at Parks Middle School near Atlanta who got caught up in the scandal involving the standardized tests that were part of the No Child Left Behind program that tried to institutionalize higher test scores in schools nationwide. The problem was that the students in Lewis’ school were severely underprivileged; despite the best efforts of Lewis and other teachers, these kids were not making the grades necessary to keep the school from being shuttered. And so Lewis, who in the article was a heroic force for the students of his school and was football, soccer and softball coach and the chess club founder, joined in an effort to cheat the test scores upward. Lewis became part of what was called the largest academic cheating scandal in U.S. history, which saw 11 educators convicted of racketeering. Lewis is a consultant and so is Aviv.

Here's the article the movie will be based off of, if you want to "spoil" yourself.

 

[jon bones]

that's quite a creative team

i hope this doesn't get in the way of Coogler returning for Black Panther 2 & 3

 

[BronsonLee]

Yo Ryan cut the umbilical cord, damn

You don't gotta have MBJ in all your movies

 

[Dabanton]

Yo Ryan cut the umbilical cord, damn

You don't gotta have MBJ in all your movies

If you work well with an actor why not?

 

[shoelacer]

Yo Ryan cut the umbilical cord, damn

You don't gotta have MBJ in all your movies

Works for Scorsese and Leo

 

[Sanjuro]

Will this version of the thread have Creed 2?

 

[torre_avenue]

that's quite a creative team

i hope this doesn't get in the way of Coogler returning for Black Panther 2 & 3

This looks to be a comparatively smaller project, so its entirely conceivable he could do this film and do a hypothetical "Black Panther 2" if Marvel so wishes. Considering GOTG 3 is likely going to be a 2020 release, any sequel to BP would be released until at least 2021.

 

[torre_avenue]

Woops, sorry about that mods, I didn't see the earlier thread. Please lock.

 

[Altazor]

I'm in.

 

[Krombopulos_Michael]

Yo Ryan cut the umbilical cord, damn

You don't gotta have MBJ in all your movies

But if you can, why go without MBJ?

 

[OrangeGrayBlue]

Yes please.

 

[Sanjuro]

But if you can, why go without MBJ?

He isn't the Michael Jordan of acting.

 

[Lamel]

Sounds cool.