Will Smith is getting a foot in the game with Netflix to bring to life an adaptation of Tọlá Okogwu’s upcoming novel, Onyeka and the Academy Of The Sun. The film will focus on a teenager who learns she has powers and travels to Nigeria to learn more about her origins, where she discovers a threat to her newfound magical community.
Ola Shokunbi (Satellite, Indigo, upcoming A Yellow Heaven) is set to write the adaptation based on the novel which will publish this June in the U.S. and the U.K. from Simon & Schuster.
Smith and Jon Mone will produce the film via Smith’s Westbrook Studios banner alongside David Oyelowo for Yoruba Saxon. Heather Washington of Westbrook Studios and Jessica Oyelowo of Yoruba Saxon will exec produce.