Author John Henkels’ “The Alabama Prophet” Nabs J. Jesses Smith as Director on this book to film project, at play is an alternate reality to the evolution of suppression and racism in post-Civil War America in which the seeds that eradicate racism are sown in the unlikeliest of places, Alabama. This fascinating story takes place in an alternate reality of the Post-Civil War era, where the destruction of racism in America is paramount to a former slave after she inherits her white father and master’s rich plantation. With the help of a time traveler sent to eradicate evil, she defends her ownership from her vicious, and now penniless, white half-brother, the presumed heir. The seeds are sown, in Alabama, that choke out racism over the following generations in America.
The pilot script is now available.
