Set to premiere at Sundance and already picked up by A24 for distribution, this heavily reimagined adaptation of Richard Wright’s 1940 novel hails from celebrated artist Rashid Johnson who makes his feature-film directorial debut on the project about ‘Big’ Thomas (“Moonlight” breakout Ashton Sanders), a young African American man living with family in Chicago. Full of self-determination, he accepts a job as the chauffeur for a wealthy businessman and his involvement in an accidental death places him on a collision course with the powerful social forces pitted against him. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks adapted the script.