Hulu has handed a straight-to-series order to Washington Black, the Sterling K. Brown-fronted adaptation of Esi Edugyan’s novel.The streamer has given the limited series project a nine-episode order with Twilight Zone writer Selwyn Seyfu adapting for 20th Television.
The project, which is also exec produced by This Is Us star Brown, has been in development at the digital platform for a couple of years.Washington Black follows the 19th-century adventures of George Washington Black (Wash) – 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
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