‘Lucifer’ Alum Tom Ellis Joins Sterling K. Brown In Hulu’s ‘Washington Black’
deadline.comLucifer alum Tom Ellis is set as a series regular in Washington Black, the Sterling K. Brown-fronted adaptation of Esi Edugyan’s novel, which received a straight-to-series order at Hulu.
Twilight Zone writer Selwyn Seyfu Hinds is adapting the limited series for 20th Television.Washington Black follows the extraordinary 19th-century adventures of George Washington (“Wash”) Black – an 11-year-old boy on a Barbados sugar plantation who must flee after a shocking death threatens to upend his life.
Brown will play the gregarious, larger-than-life Medwin Harris, who traveled the world after a traumatic childhood as a Black refugee in Nova Scotia as the de facto Mayor of Black Halifax prioritizes the community over everything except Washington Black, his young protégé.
Meeting Wash sends him down a challenging path of self-discovery. And as the barricades around his heart start to fall, Medwin will learn to dream again.Ellis will play Christopher “Titch” Wilde, an eccentric, passionate Steam-Punk inventor whose youthful enthusiasm masks an inner vulnerability.
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