Black Panther star Michael B. Jordan will be co-producing will be Sony Pictures adaption of A Journal For Jordan, which will be directed by Denzel Washington and written by Oscar-nominated writer Virgil Williams.
A Journal For Jordan is based on true events surrendering Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dana Canedy’s love story with First Sergeant Charles Monroe. The journal is a combination of letters to their son Jordan, prayers, and insight to his life overseas which was recorded just in case Monroe never made it home from his deployment in Iraq. On October 14, 2006, Monroe was killed in a roadside bombing. Canedy’s goal for
A Journal For Jordan was to give her son an account of who Monroe was because Jordan never got a chance to meet his father. In addition to him being on the screen, Jordan is also slated to co-produce the film with Washington through his Outlier Society production. It’s obvious that Jordan definitely loves being behind the cameras too. Earlier this year in an Instagram post, Jordan shared a trailer for an upcoming show on OWN Network that he co-produced with Oprah Winfrey.
