Asante Blackk Joins ‘Landscape With Invisible Hand’; ‘Black Panther’ Sequel Starts Production; Shannon Lee Rightfully Drags Quentin Tarantino
by Team Diaspora | Jul 2, 2021 | News |
- When They See Us king Asante Blackk is set to star opposite of Tiffany Haddish in MGM and Plan B’s upcoming adaptation of M.T. Anderson’s novel Landscape With Invisible Hand.
- Apple is developing a drama series about Negro League Baseball with Magic Johnson as producer. The series will explore the story of Negro League Baseball using the life and legacy of the legendary athlete and showman Leroy “Satchel” Paige, one of baseball’s greatest pitchers and star of Negro Leagues for many years.
- Gabrielle Union is bringing Tamara Winfrey-Harris’ award-winning book The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women In America to TV!
- Shannon Lee has a few words for Quentin Tarantinho about what he said about her father, the legendary Bruce Lee… and they aren’t exactly ones of praise.
- The Marvel Cinematic Universe sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever directed and written by Ryan Coogler has started production and we already bought our tickets.
- We saw her slay in Lovecraft Country and Loki but now the incredible Wunmi Mosaku has joined We Own This City limited series at HBO.
- Speaking of Lovecraft Country, as much as we loved it… it won’t be coming back for a second season.
- King Jesse Williams is set to star as the villain in Paramount’s high-concept family action movie Secret Headquarters.
- Joel Kim Booster is having a good week. First, he’s gonna join Bowen Yang in Andrew Ahn‘s rom-com Fire Island and now he’s joining Maya Rudolph in an untitled Apple comedy.
- Phylicia Rashad has joined Anna Diop and Sinqua Walls in Nikyatu Jusu‘s supernatural thriller Nanny… Rashad also went through it with her words about Cosby being released from prison.
- Reginald Hudlin is set to direct an adaptation of the WWII graphic novel Black Cotton Star which will be scripted by Deric Hughes & Benjamin Raab.
- Ruby Barker is going from the regal horniness of Bridgerton to the high-concept horror/thriller Baghead.
- So The Weeknd is creating an HBO drama with Euphoria creator Sam Levinson called The Idol… this might be interesting.
- Th Critics Choice Association is now taking on the world with the World Movie Awards, designed to honor the finest in non-English-language films, beginning in 2022.
- Mr. Robot creator is Sam Esmail developing the alt-history family drama The American Throne which which follows a modern-day American monarchy where the royal family finds out a there’s a Black son who is the heir to their white throne — this sounds juicy.
- Shout out to Angelique Jackson for being promoted to Senior Entertainment Writer at Variety!
- Nico Parker joins Pedro Pascal in HBO’s series adaptation as Joel’ of the popular video game The Last of Us as Joel’s daughter.
- Nadine Ellis is set to star opposite Yaya DaCosta, Morris Chestnut and Joe Morton in the Fox drama series Our Kind of People.
- O’Shea Jackson is joining Keri Russell and Jesse Tyler Ferguson in Elizabeth Banks’ directorial sophomore feature Cocaine Bear. I’m dying to sniff this one.
- Lifetime has greenlit the original thriller Safe Space starring Nicole Ari Parker, Boris Kodjoe (who also makes his directorial debut and Nik Sanchez as well as Mackenzie Astin and Drea de Matteo.
- Chandler Kinney and Maia Reficco are set to lead Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, a darker, present-day iteration of the original series.
- Travis “Taco” Bennett — who can be seen in FX’s Dave is set to star in Johnathan Glickman’s comedy caper California King.
- Lisa Vidal, Jaina Lee Ortiz, Carlos Miranda, and Sasha Merci are attached to star in crime-action heist feature Shelter.
- And finally, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited 395 new members including Janet Jackson, Henry Golding, Nicole Behari, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Ye-ri Han, Luis Gerardo Méndez, Leslie Odom, Jr., Steven Yeun, Yuh-Jung Youn, Issa Rae, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Laverne Cox, Andra Day, Eiza González, Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Janicza Bravo, Lee Isaac Chung, Nia DaCosta, Shaka King, Cathy Yan and many more POCs and underrepresented voices. We love to see it.
Related
