Amblin to Adapt Walter Mosley s Easy Rawlins Books for TV
Mónica Marie Zorrilla, provided by
Feb. 23, 2021
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Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins will be sleuthing his way back to the screen. Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television has closed a deal to develop and produce a television series adapted from Walter Mosley’s bestselling gritty historical fiction mystery series starring Rawlins, one of literature’s most popular Black investigators.
The drama, based on Mosley’s fifteen novels and collection of short stories centered on the WWII army veteran turned hard-boiled private eye, will be set in 1950’s Los Angeles. Per the logline, the show will honor the great traditions of storytelling in the detective genre, while also exploring the racial inequities and social injustice experienced by BIPOC and other non-white people.
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Update:
On Feb. 22, Variety reported that Steven Spielbergâs Amblin Entertainment has announced a deal to develop and produce a TV series based on the Easy Rawlins novels. Walter Mosley will be one of the executive producers; no word yet on casting, production dates or outlet.
Walter Mosleyâs books about Easy Rawlins are crime fiction, not history. But taken together, theyâre a vivid picture of Black life in Los Angeles in the mid-20th century.
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Book World: Walter Mosley s new Easy Rawlins book is a masterful mix of mystery and social commentary
Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post
Feb. 8, 2021
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There comes a moment in every Easy Rawlins mystery I ve read, where I realize I have no idea what s going on. The plot picks up speed, becoming a hectic Tilt-a-Whirl ride where dead bodies, cold-stone killers, femmes fatales, crooked cops and lost spaces in Los Angeles whiz by at top velocity. It s at this moment - when I m most exasperated with Walter Mosley as a writer - that I m also most admiring. Because, once again, I realize that I don t care all that much that I can t keep track of what s going on - no more than I care that I can t keep track of what s going on in The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep or Cotton Comes to Harlem.