Coming off the success of his daughter Beyonce’s concert film Renaissance, Matthew Knowles is hoping for similar success in both film and TV.

Knowles, 71, is a well-known music manager who guided his daughter’s first group Destiny’s Child to success while also managing her solo career.

He wrote a memoir in 2017 entitled Racism From the Eyes of a Child, which Variety reports is being eyed for both movie and TV adaptations.

The music manager has teamed up with Robert Unkel’s Say Unkel Entertainment for the projects, though there are no writers or directors attached yet.

The film project is said to cover the first half of Knowles’ 208-page book, following his early years growing up in Alabama in the early 1960s.

Matthew: Coming off the success of his daughter Beyonce’s concert film Renaissance , Matthew Knowles is hoping for similar success in both film and TV

Knowles, 71, is a well-known music manager who guided his daughter’s first group Destiny’s Child to success while also managing her solo career

He was one of just six Black students to attend an all-white school, and took part in many peaceful protests.

He recounted in the book how he was once burned with a cattle prod at one protest and was arrested four times in one day.

Knowles’ struggles in his youth have been documented by his famous daughter including in her music video Formation and other documentary projects.

The book recounts how early Civil Rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Turner, Ralph Abernathy were key figures in his life, along how his upbringing shaped him – his mother was a classmate of Coretta Scott King.

‘These are the men who made me proud and women who taught me to fight back,’ Knowles told Variety in a statement.

Unkel, who previously served as vice president of programming at 20th Century Fox, said the movie screenplay is ready to be taken out to market, though no writer was identified.

Unkel will oversee development on the movie with Howard Kazanjian, a producer on the original Star Wars trilogy.

No details were given about the TV series project, though it seems likely to focus on his professional career.

He was one of just six Black students to attend an all-white school, and took part in many peaceful protests

No details were given about the TV series project, though it seems likely to focus on his professional career

He worked in medical sales throughout the late 70s and 1980s before leaving his work to focus on his music management company in 1992

He holds two degrees from Harvard and has has published five books, two of which have become bestsellers

He worked in medical sales throughout the late 70s and 1980s before leaving his work to focus on his music management company in 1992.

Aside from managing Destiny’s Child and the solo careers of Beyonce and Solange Knowles (along with former Destiny’s Child members Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland), he also worked with Chaka Khan and Earth Wind & Fire.

He holds two degrees from Harvard and has has published five books, two of which have become bestsellers.

Knowles currently sits on the faculty at both London College of Contemporary Music and Pepperdine University.

Source:https://www.dailymail.co.uk