*Music manager Mathew Knowles is turning his 2017 memoir into a film and television series.
Knowles partnered with Say Unkel Entertainment to adapt his memoir “Racism From the Eyes of a Child” into a feature film and limited series, Variety reports.
The father to superstar sisters Beyoncé and Solange announced in 2019 that he was retiring from the music industry.
“In the next two years, I will have transitioned completely out of the music industry… my plan is to be completely dedicated to mentoring, academia,” he told Page Six at the time. “There’s nothing negative about [the decision]. I’m personally ready to move on. I’ll continue to teach about the music business.”
Knowles, former manager to Beyoncé and Destiny’s Child, launched his Impact podcast on iHeartRadio in 2019, a weekly one-hour program where he shares his perspectives on racism, health and wellness, entrepreneurship, and the music business.
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“These four topics consume the American zeitgeist today and at the root of them all is money and power,” Knowles said previously about the podcast.
The upcoming film will chronicle the first half of Knowles’ book, which unpacks his early years growing up in early ’60s Alabama and the civil rights pioneers who shaped his world views — Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Turner, and Ralph Abernathy, per Variety.
“These are the men who made me proud and women who taught me to fight back,” Knowles told Variety.
Robert Unkel, a former VP of programming at 20th Century Fox, told Variety that the feature script is complete.
Knowles announced the project in an Instagram post, writing, “A new and exciting season is upon us. Looking forward to having you all see the film Quilts, taken from my book “Racism From The Eyes of a Child,” on the big and little screens.”
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