Jay Z and the Weinstein Company plan to turn the life and death of Trayvon Martin into a six-part docuseries, reports Variety. The series will be based on two books, Lisa Bloom’s Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It and Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin’s Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin. Bloom is a legal analyst who covered George Zimmerman’s trial “from gavel to gavel,” per her book’s Amazon blurb. The latter book was co-written by Trayvon’s mother and her fellow co-founder of the Trayvon Martin foundation.
Variety reports that the deal is the product of a “heated bidding war” for the rights to the books, and that Fox Searchlight and Universal were also interested in the properties.