Whoopi Goldberg and documentarian Keith A. Beauchamp are collaborating on a movie based on the brutal 1955 murder of Emmett Till that invigorated the American Civil Rights Moment.

The drama "Till" will be adapted from Beauchamp’s 2004 documentary “The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till" and Simeon Wright’s “Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till.” It is expected to go into production next year and a Kickstarter campaign has been launched to help finance the film.

Speaking to Variety, Goldberg said, “Emmett Till’s brutal death at the hands of ignorant, brutish people exposes the Jim Crow-era South that gave the implicit OK to uphold that kind of racism without any real fear of repercussions. Today, the return of rampant, unchallenged racism cries out for the telling of Emmett Till’s story again.”

It was 60 years ago that 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped from his uncle's home and taken to a barn where he was tortured and killed after reportedly flirting with a 21-year-old white woman, Carolyn Bryant, outside a grocery store in Money, Miss.

Days later, Till was abducted by her husband, Roy Bryant, and his brother, JW Milam. The pair beat him, gouged out one of his eyes, and then shot him through the head before dumping his body in the Tallahatchie River, where it was discovered after three days.

An all-white jury found Bryant and Milam not guilty of Till's kidnapping and murder. They later publicly admitted that they killed Till, but were protected against double jeopardy.

Till's mother, Mamie Till Mobley, held an open casket funeral to show the brutality of the murder, which made national headlines and galvanized black Americans.