Amy Pascal and Jamie Foxx to Produce "Darktown"
The television series will be an adaptation of Thomas Mullen's 1940s crime novel
Amy Pascal, former Sony co-chairman turned producer, and Jamie Foxx (Ray, Django Unchained) are teaming up to produce the television series Darktown, based on Thomas Mullen's upcoming novel of the same name. Pascal and Sony Pictures Television landed the rights to the adaptation after competing with four other television studios. Pascal Pictures' Rachel O' Connor is set produce with Jamie Foxx serving as executive producer.
"Set in Atlanta in 1948, the story centers on the city’s first black police officers — whose hire in the department as a result from pressure on high is met with vitriol from their white counterparts and distrust within their own African American community. In a culture and time when blacks were still relegated to the back of the bus, the officers are treated as second class. They can only patrol in black neighborhoods, are not allowed to arrest white suspects, cannot drive squad cars and cannot use the police headquarters, forced to operate out of the basement of a gym. The book chronicles the case of a black woman who turns up fatally beaten after last seen in a car driven by a white man, which deepens the divide in the police department."
Thomas Mullen's Darktown novel will be released in September 2016.
Source: Deadline
