{"id":58734,"date":"2019-08-21T23:02:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T23:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58734"},"modified":"2019-08-21T23:02:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T23:02:09","slug":"producer-phillip-rodriguez-acquires-rights-to-the-strange-career-of-william-ellis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58734","title":{"rendered":"Producer Phillip Rodriguez Acquires Rights To \u2018The Strange Career of William Ellis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Producer Phillip Rodriguez Acquires Rights To \u2018The Strange Career of William Ellis\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Deadline: Breaking Hollywood News Since 2006<\/a>
\n2019-08-21<\/p>\n

Dino-Ray Ramos<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Editor\/Reporter<\/p>\n

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EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> Producer and indie<\/a> filmmaker Phillip Rodriguez<\/a> has optioned the film and TV rights to Karl Jacoby\u2019s<\/a> book The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire<\/em><\/a>. Rodriguez is set to develop and produce the narrative-based project<\/p>\n

Jacoby\u2019s prize-winning book tells the true story of William Ellis, a larger-than-life figure who was born on the U.S.-Mexico border<\/a> in the twilight of slavery and inhabited a world divided along ambiguous racial lines. Adopting the name Guillermo Eliseo, he passed as Mexican, transcending racial lines<\/a> to become fabulously wealthy as a Wall Street<\/a> banker, diplomat, and owner of scores of mines and haciendas<\/a> south of the border. In The Strange Career of William Ellis<\/em>, Columbia University historian Jacoby weaves an astonishing tale of cunning, scandal, self-invention and the abiding riddle of race in America<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jacoby\u2019s prize-winning book tells the true story of William Ellis, a larger-than-life figure who was born on the U.S.-Mexico border in the twilight of slavery and inhabited a world divided along ambiguous racial lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,1245,21,459,8,103,6462,6940,20],"tags":[27644,30148,17753,19292,22157,19293,30149,19295,19294,22156],"class_list":["post-58734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-biography","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-passing-2","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-deadline","tag-deadline-breaking-hollywood-news-since-2006","tag-dino-ray-ramos","tag-guillermo-eliseo","tag-guillermo-enrique-eliseo","tag-karl-jacoby","tag-phillip-rodriguez","tag-w-h-ellis","tag-william-ellis","tag-william-henry-ellis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58735,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58734\/revisions\/58735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}