May 15 A comic book created by South Carolina artists will have its film adaptation directed by Academy Award winning actress and celebrated director Regina King, according to reports. King was tapped to direct Bitter Root. South Carolina comic book creators Sanford Greene and Chuck Brown created Bitter Root along with David F. Walker, who is based in Portland, Oregon. Greene, Brown and Walker .
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Regina King officially signed on to direct her second film, a feature adaptation of the award-winning Image Comics series
Bitter Root, with production company Legendary Entertainment, Deadline reported. The
One Night in Miami
, for which she was nominated for both a DGA Award and an NAACP Image Award. King is additionally a four-time Emmy winner and the 2019 Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress for Barry Jenkins s
If Beale Street Could Talk. King will be producing the adaptation alongside Reina King, Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Coogler, and Sev Ohanian, with executive producers Sean Owolo of Drapetomedia and series creators David F. Walker, Sanford Greene, and Chuck Brown.
King will direct the film adaptation ofÂ
Bitter Root, a series he co-created with illustrator Sanford Greene and writer Chuck Brown that s published by Portland giant Image Comics. Instantly acclaimed when it premiered in 2019,Â
Bitter Root is set in a mid-Renaissance 1920s Harlem, where a family of monster hunters has to heal intergenerational wounds or else watch the world succumb to demonic forces. King attached herself late last year, and her involvement was announced publicly on May 11. In the very earliest days of development, her name was on the list, and [her directorial debut]Â
One Night In Miami hadn t even come out yet, but there were a bunch of rumors floating around that sheâd been directing and wanted to do a feature,â Walker says. âI kept pushing. I was like, âRegina! Regina!â ⦠and we just kind of lucked out.â