Brian Tee Producing Anthology Limited Series; Season 1 To Adapt Historical Novel ‘Iva, The True Story of Tokyo Rose’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Brian Tee (Chicago Med, Expats) is set to produce the anthology limited series The Scapegoat. The project is currently being shopped around to streamers and premium cablers.
Season 1, titled Tokyo Rose, will adapt the Mike Weedall historical novel, Iva, The True Story of Tokyo Rose. It will tell the story of Iva Toguri, who was wrongfully convicted of treason and sent to prison for being the infamous radio propagandist “Tokyo Rose” during World War II.
Tee, whose grandparents were imprisoned in an Internment Camp during the war, believes that Tokyo Rose is “just the first of the many universal stories that can be told in future seasons of The Scapegoat, including contemporary tales, featuring people who endured the hateful sides of this country and survived, emerging as hopeful symbols of our American ideals.” Tee also notes that the box office success of Oppenheimer over the summer demonstrates the “audience’s appetite for stories that test the complicated moral fabric of our history.” Barry Schkolnick (Law & Order, The Good Wife) will write the series alongside playwright Tracy Held, vice-chair of the WGA’s Asian American Writers Committee.
Schkolnick will also serve as showrunner. The project is being created with the support of the civil rights organization The Japanese Americans Citizens League.
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