Story details are being kept under wraps but it’s described as a John Wick-esque hard boiled action film with an African American male lead.
Ashley Holland
Nellie Bly – a fiery, young journalist – is hired by Joseph Pulitzer in the late 1880s to feign insanity and go undercover as a patient into the notorious Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell Island. Once committed, she finds herself fighting her own rapid onset of madness as well as the doctors’ suspicions of her true identity.
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