HBO Developing Adaptation Of Ibi Zoboi’s ‘Pride’ From Aziza Barnes, Natasha Rothwell, Alloy Entertainment & Warner Bros
Peter White Television EditorSnowfall writer Aziza Barnes and Insecure’s Natasha Rothwell are developing an adaptation of Ibi Zoboi’s novel Pride for HBO.Pride is an update to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, a Haitian-Dominican coming of age story that explores young love, teenage angst, and gentrification through magical realism.Barnes, who also wrote on Netflix’s Teenage Bounty Hunters, is writing the adaptation, and will exec produce with Rothwell. Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin producer Alloy Entertainment is producing in association with Warner Bros.