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5 Books That Just Got The Greenlight For TV/Movie Adaptation With Black Women That We Need To Watch NOW!
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Lee Daniels, Tasha Smith and Morris Chestnut team up to develop new TV series
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Actress, director, producer and acting coach,
Tasha Smith has been tapped to direct the pilot and second episode of the upcoming FOX drama, âOur Kind of People,â inspired by the book by
Laurence Otis Graham.
Karin Gist and
Lee Daniels, the series is inspired by Lawrence Otis Grahamâs critically praised book “Our Kind of People: Inside Americaâs Black Upper Class.” Deadline writes that the show follows “strong-willed, single mom Angela Vaughn as she sets out to reclaim her familyâs name and make an impact with her revolutionary haircare line that highlights the innate, natural beauty of black women. But she soon discovers a dark secret about her motherâs past that will turn her world upside-down and shake up this community forever.”
Vivica A Fox Calls Directing ‘Next Chapter for My Career’ (Video)
BE Conference 2021: Fox directed the short film “Through Her Eyes,” produced by Tressa Azarel Smallwood
Beatrice Verhoeven | May 13, 2021 @ 10:16 AM
Vivica A. Fox can count over 140 acting credits, as well as 30 producing credits, to her name, and recently, Fox has added directing into the mix. Partnering with producer Tressa Azarel Smallwood to produce the short film “Through Her Eyes” for BET Her, Fox says directing is definitely the next step of her career.
“I enjoyed sitting in the director’s chair this time I definitely feel like it’s the next chapter for my career,” Fox said at TheWrap’s mentorship BE Conference. “I know I make an excellent director and actors’ director because I know what it’s like to be in front of the camera. I know what it’s like to produce so I can bring a lot of experience to make my actors comfortable… directing has definitely come at the right time
Stacey Abrams, the woman credited with helping
Joe Biden win the Presidential election by boosting the voting turnout in Georgia, will have her latest novel turned into a TV series.
According to Deadline, NBCU’s Working Title Television has acquired the rights to Abrams’ legal thriller
While Justice Sleeps. The book follows Avery Keene, a brilliant young law clerk who is given legal guardianship and power of attorney over a controversial Supreme Court justice. Details on the series have yet to be revealed.
In other news, actress-director
Lee Daniel‘s upcoming FOX drama
Our Kind of People. As previously reported, the series follows Angela Vaughn, a single mother who “risks it all” by moving her family to Martha’s Vineyard with the hopes of taking her natural hair-care line to the next level. While she attempts to infiltrate the African-American elite on the Vineyard, Vaughn’s plans are halted when she “discovers a secret.” A release date for the series has
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