RaMell Ross makes his feature directorial debut with the adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel,

"Nickel Boys," a movie adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel from 2019, debuted its first trailer on Thursday — a melodic and riveting slice of life from the perspective of a young man on the other side of unspeakable traumas.

Elwood Curtis’s college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he’s sentenced to the netherworld of Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory sunk deep in the Jim Crow South.