Bron Acquires JJ Bola’s Novel ‘The Selfless Act Of Breathing’; Keenan Scott II To Adapt
25.02.2022 - 02:57
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Bron Studios has snapped up rights to The Selfless Act of Breathing, the newly released novel by JJ Bola, to develop into a feature-length film.
Playwright Keenan Scott II (Broadway’s Thoughts of a Colored Man) will adapt for the screen.
The Selfless Act of Breathing follows Michael Kabongo, a British-Congolese teacher living in London on the cusp of two identities. On paper, he seems to have it all: He’s beloved by his students, popular with his co-workers, and the pride and joy of a mother who emigrated from the Congo to the UK in search of a better life. But behind closed doors, he’s been struggling with the overwhelming sense that he can’t address the injustices he sees raging before him – from his relentless efforts to change the lives of his students for the better to his attempts to transcend the violence and brutality that marginalizes young Black men around the world.
Then one day he suffers a devastating loss, and his life is thrown into a tailspin. Michael decides to spontaneously pack up and go to America, where he imagines everything will be better, easier — a place where he can become someone new, someone without a past filled with pain. There he parties with new friends, sparks on new romances, splurges on big adventures, with the intent of living life until the money in his bank account runs out.
Said Bola, “The Selfless Act of Breathing being brought to the screen is incredibly exciting for me. Film is such a powerful tool of transformation, and the possibility of telling this timely, poignant story, at a time like this in the world, fills me with hope. I want to thank everyone who has believed in this story from the beginning, my agency, and the team at Bron. I thank my readers and I look forward
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