Hot Series Package: George Washington, Founding Father, Owner Of 300 Enslaved People
EXCLUSIVE: An intriguing package is about to be shopped for a series commitment, an hourlong drama on the contradictions that were part of the first term of George Washington. Antoine Fuqua is aboard to direct a pilot and be executive producer with series creators, vet Blue Bloods EP/writer Brian Burns and William N. Collage. Latter wrote the runaway slave script Emancipation, which Fuqua is directing with Will Smith starring for Apple Studios. That film is about to begin production in Louisiana.