Haley Bennett joins Till biopic

Haley Bennett, famous for starring in Carlos Mirabella-Davis' Swallow and playing a supporting role in Antonio Campos' The Devil All the Time, has joined the cast of writer-director Chinonye Chukwu's Till. She'll star opposite Whoopi Goldberg, Frankie Faison, and Jalyn Hall, with the film currently shooting in Atlanta.

Till, partially based on Keith Beauchamp's 2005 documentary The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, revolves around the story of Mamie Till-Mobley as she seeks justice for her son's tragic death at the hands of white supremacists. Till-Mobley deliberately held a public, open-casket funeral for her son to demonstrate the brutality of racism in the American South. 

Apart from this project, Bennett has Joe Wright's adaptation of Cyrano, a re-imagining of Edmund Rostand's classic play Cyrano de Bergerac, where she stars opposite Peter Dinklage and Kelvin Harrison. She is also set to star in Eli Roth's Borderlands adaptation alongside Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Jack Black.