‘Code Of Silence’: Tina Mabry To Adapt Chicago PD Whistleblower Tale For MWM Studios
February 27, 2018
‘Code Of Silence’: Tina Mabry To Adapt Chicago PD Whistleblower Tale For MWM Studios
EXCLUSIVE: Tina Mabry, a writer-director-producer on OWN’s drama series Queen Sugar, has been set to adapt Code of Silence, a feature film in the works at MWM Studios. The pic is based on a four-part article by Jamie Kalven in The Intercept in 2016, and tells the true story of Chicago police officer Shannon Spaulding’s experience as a whistleblower and how she, along with her partner and the community, exposed corruption and a cover-up within the Chicago PD.
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MWM Studios, a division of Gigi Pritzker and Clint Kisker’s Madison Wells Media, was known as OddLot Entertainment when it acquired film rights to Code of Silence in September to win a bidding battle. MWM Studios’ Pritzker and Rachel Shane will produce the project, and the company’s Adrian Alperovich will co-produce.
MWM Studios recently started production on Motherless Brooklyn, directed by and starring Edward Norton. The company is also behind the Emmy-nominated Nat Geo series Genius and last year’s Best Picture nominee Hell or High Water.
In addition to Queen Sugar, Mabry — who has family in Chicago and whose father worked for the Tupelo (MS) Police Department — also has written, directed and co-produced on USA’s Queen of the South and directed series including Netflix’s Dear White People, HBO’s Insecure and Starz’s Power, and she shared a DGA Award last year for her work on An American Girl Story – Melody 1963: Love Has to Win. She also wrote and directed 2009 feature film Mississippi Damned.
She is repped by Paradigm, Morgan’s Mark and Del, Shaw.