(courtesy IMP Awards)
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Follows the 19th-century odyssey of George Washington “Wash” Black, an 11-year-old boy born on a Barbados sugar plantation, whose prodigious scientific mind sets him on a path of unexpected destiny. When an incident forces Wash to flee, he is thrust into a globe-spanning adventure that challenges & reshapes his understanding of family, freedom and love. As he navigates uncharted lands and impossible odds, Wash finds the courage to imagine a future beyond the confines of society. Washington Black is a series created by Guyanese-American journalist / writer Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, a writer on The Twilight Zone series previously. With more writing by Blaize Ali-Watkins, Ann Cherkis, Michael Cobian, Shernold Edwards, Jennifer Johnson, Marco Ramirez. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Esi Edugyan. With episodes directed by Maurice Marable, Wanuri Kahiu, Rob Seidenglanz. Made by 20th Television in association with Indian Meadows Productions & The Gotham Group. Executive produced by Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, Kimberly Ann Harrison, Sterling K. Brown, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Wanuri Kahiu, Mo Marable, Rob Seidenglanz, Jeremy Bell, Lindsay Williams, D.J. Goldberg, Jennifer Johnson, & Anthony Hemingway. (courtesy First Showing)
I am not one of those people who recoils in fear when a book is turned into a movie or streaming/TV show.
It either works or it doesn’t, and if it doesn’t, well, the book still remains as good and highly readable as ever and if it succeeds, there we are lucky to have another take on a story we know and love.
Either was you don’t lose, but I have a feeling, after watching the trailer that this adaptation of the brilliant novel by Esi Edugyan will be one of the great successes.
It will be exciting to see if this is the case when Washington Black premieres on Hulu on 23 July.