

(Image credit: A24) Janicza Bravo Was Set On Shooting Zola On Film Instead Of Digitally We would just send each other ideas.Īnd though there was some back-and-forth when it came to moments like the pissing scene in Zola, the process largely went off with a hitch. We would text each other and send each other emails and communicate on Instagram. He was at Yale in his second year and I was in L.A., trying to direct episodes of television and getting rejected. But with the pair being on opposite sides of the country, they had to treat the collaborative process like they were “long-distance lovers,” forcing them to find different ways to stay in contact and rewrite the script, as Bravo told Vanity Fair (opens in new tab): When Janicza Bravo took over as director in 2017, she took a pass at the Zola screenplay and opted to make various changes, which were pulled off with the help of close friend Jere O. Harris Co-Wrote Zola Through Emails, Text And Instagram (Image credit: A24) Janicza Bravo And Jeremy O. David Kushner’s article, titled “Zola Tells All: The Real Story Behind the Greatest Stripper Saga Ever Tweeted,” went into all kinds of details about #TheStory and what came in its fallout. The viral thread was quickly spread by countless Twitter users in subsequent hours, days, and weeks, and eventually led to Rolling Stone Magazine (opens in new tab) publishing an extensive interview with King where those who somehow missed the first wave of the drama were exposed to the unforgettable and unfathomable story. (Image credit: A24) In October 2015, Aziah ‘Zola’ King Posted A 148-Tweet Thread That Would Eventually Become The A24 Movieīefore becoming one of the best under-the-radar 2021 movies (opens in new tab), Zola started out as an October 2015 Twitter thread that took the internet and world by storm with its 148–part epic about Aziah “Zola” King and her extraordinary and incredibly dangerous road trip that took her from Detroit, Michigan, to Tampa, Florida, changing everything she knew about friendship, life, and herself in the process.
