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Exclusive: Bond producer says new film will make ‘big difference’ in throwing long-overdue light on 1955 lynching murderHollywood has always been drawn to true stories. Yet, for almost two decades, it rejected the idea of a film about a Black mother’s fight for justice for her 14-year-old son, who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly flirting with a white woman.Producer Barbara Broccoli told the Guardian that it has taken 18 years to get the film made, that she had tried repeatedly to interest studio executives in Mamie Till-Mobley’s struggle against racial terror, following the lynching of her child, Emmett Till, by white supremacists. Continue reading...