For the past five years, the Internet has been charmed by a viral story involving Thanksgiving dinner, a wrong number, and a newfound friendship — and apparently, it is soon headed to film. On Thursday, it was announced (via a report from Variety) that Netflix had greenlit The Thanksgiving Text, a movie based on the real-life story of Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton, two strangers who bonded after an accidental exchange of text messages in 2016. The film will be written by Abdul Williams (Salt-N-Pepa, The Bobby Brown Story), with producers including Robert Teitel and George Tillman, Jr. A director and cast have not been set at this time.
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