Fresh off multiple Oscar wins for Moonlight, Barry Jenkins announced his next feature project will be an adaptation of James Baldwin's 1974 novel If Beale Street Could Talk.

Set in Harlem, the book tells the story of engaged couple Fonny and Tish, who are expecting their first child. Things get dark, though, when Tish is forced to track down evidence to free Fonny after he is falsely accused of rape.

Jenkins wrote the script for Beale Street in 2013, during the same summer he adapted Moonlight for the big screen with Tarell Alvin McCraney. According to The Hollywood Reporter, production on the new project is scheduled to begin in October.

Jenkins is also working on another adaptation for Amazon, this time writing and directing a limited TV series based on Colson Whitehead's novel The Underground Railroad.