Ring Shout, a TV show for Skydance Television based on a novella by
P.Djéli Clark released in October. In the book, the 1915
D.W. Griffith infamous ‘classic’ film is used to summon Ku Kluxes who are non-human entities of the human Ku Klux Klan. Lane will play Maryse Boudreaux, a monster hunter who is assisted by entities known as the Aunties as well as real-life fighters Sadie, Chef, a former Harlem Hellfighter, and a Gullah woman named Nana Jean.
Actress Kiki Layne (Getty Images)
The official synopsis reads:
Ring Shout tells the story of an otherworldly evil that has risen in the 1920s South in the form of monsters who take up residence within the bodies of people filled with hate – namely the Ku Klux Klan. D.W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation” is helping to swell the Klan’s ranks and the monsters are drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of racism. Across the nation they spread fear and violence. But even monsters can die. Standing in their way is a young Black woman, Maryse Boudreaux (Layne), and her two friends and fellow resistance fighters – a foul-mouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter. Armed with blade, bullet and bomb, they hunt their hunters and send the Klan’s demons straight to Hell. But something even bigger is brewing in Macon, and the war on Hell is about to heat up. And Maryse, haunted by events of her past, is the only one who can put a stop to it all.