Jay Z, Will Smith team up with Aaron Kaplan HBO miniseries

Will Smith and Jay-Z are set to produce an HBO miniseries about Emmett Till along with producer Aaron Kaplan.
The story revolves around a African American teenager, who was tragically and brutally murdered in 1955 for allegedly flirting with a 21-year-old white co-owner of a Mississippi grocery store, Carolyn Bryant and asking her out on a date, reported Variety.
Till was killed when Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother, J W Milam, showed up at the house of the 14-year-old teen's great uncle and shot him in the head and threw his body in the Tallahatchie River.
Jay Brown and James Lassiter are on board as executive producers, alongside Jay-Z, Smith and Kaplan.

The idea was originally given by Kaplan to Smith 46 and 45-year-old rapper who immediately agreed to work on the story.
No writer has been roped in yet to pen down the miniseries yet.
Prio to this project Jay-Z and Smith, came together as producers on the 2014 feature remake of "Annie".