Sterling Okay. Brown is deepening his roots at Hulu. After starring within the iconic ABC sequence “This Is Us” (and later reteaming with creator Dan Fogelman for “Paradise”), the Emmy winner and Oscar nominee is again on the streamer with the novel adaptation of “Washington Black.”
Brown stars in and government produces the sequence based mostly on Esi Edugyan’s bestselling novel of the identical identify a few younger boy who leaves a plantation within the 1800s and embarks on an journey all over the world. The official synopsis reads: “‘Washington Black’ follows the Nineteenth-century odyssey of George Washington ‘Wash’ Black, an eleven-year-old boy (Ernest Kingsley Jr.) born on a Barbados sugar plantation, whose prodigious scientific thoughts units him on a path of sudden future. When a harrowing incident forces Wash to flee, he’s thrust right into a globe-spanning journey that challenges and reshapes his understanding of household, freedom, and love. As he navigates uncharted lands and inconceivable odds, Wash finds the braveness to think about a future past the confines of the society he was born into.”
Rupert Graves, Iola Evans, Edward Bluemel, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Eddie Karanja, and Tom Ellis co-star alongside Brown. The mission was introduced in 2021.
“Washington Black” is produced by twentieth Tv Manufacturing in affiliation with Indian Meadows Productions and The Gotham Group. Together with Brown, Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, Kimberly Ann Harrison, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Wanuri Kahiu, Mo Marable, Rob Seidenglanz, Jeremy Bell, Lindsay Williams, D.J. Goldberg, Jennifer Johnson, and Anthony Hemingway additionally government produce. Esi Edugyan is co-producer.
Hinds and Harrison are the showrunners for the sequence, which is amongst IndieWire’s most anticipated sequence of the season. IndieWire’s Proma Khosla wrote that “Washington Black” is the highest choose for Hulu debuts this July.
Brown beforehand informed IndieWire’s Anne Thompson he selects his roles based mostly on which communicate to him. “[I want to] maintain stunning folks as a lot as I presumably can,” he stated. “I take pleasure in making folks really feel. […] I’ll go the place the story is, the place the most effective story is informed, with great inventive partnerships. I’m pleased to be in a spot the place I’ve selection. That’s a rarity on this enterprise.”
“Washington Black” premieres July 23 on Hulu. Take a look at the trailer under.