Showtime Orders Pilot For ‘The Wood’ TV Series

Essence Magazine:

By Okla Jones ·August 24, 2021August 24, 2021

Deadline reports that Showtime has ordered a pilot for a new television series based on the 1999 film, The Wood, which was written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa. His credits also include the films Dope, Brown Sugar, and Talk to Me, as well as episodes of The Chi and The Mandalorian. In collaboration with Famuyiwa’s direction, Justin Hillian (The Chi, Snowfall) will write the pilot and

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