2022 Oscar nominee Will Smith (King Richard) and two-time Emmy nominee David Oyelowo (The Girl Before) have come aboard Netflix’s film adaptation of Tọlá Okogwu’s upcoming book Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun as producers, Deadline has confirmed.Onyeka is the first in a series of children’s books from the author, journalist and hair care educator, which is set to be published in the U.S.
and UK by Simon & Schuster in June. It tells the story of a teenager who learns she has powers, subsequently traveling to Nigeria to learn more about her origins.
There, she discovers a threat to her newfound magical community.Ola Shokunbi (Satellite, Indigo, the upcoming A Yellow Heaven) is handling the screenplay adaptation.
Smith and Co-President of Film Jon Mone will produce for Westbrook Studios, with Oyelowo for Yoruba Saxon. Westbrook Studios’ Heather Washington is exec producing alongside Yoruba Saxon’s Jessica Oyelowo.Smith is represented by CAA and Overbrook Entertainment; Oyelowo by CAA, Hamilton Hodell in the UK, and Del Shaw Moonves; Shokunbi by CAA and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole; and Okogwu by CAA and Claire Wilson of RCW Literary Agency.New and returning series on broadcast, cable and streamingSeries that made it or didn’t make it in 2020-21Broadcast networks’ fall lineups and schedules
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