Sterling K. Brown will star and government make the television adaptation of Washington Black, a globe-trotting historical adventure based mostly on Canadian writer Esi Edugyan’s award-winning novel.
Hulu, the U.S. digital streaming assistance, gave Washington Black a straight to collection buy with Selwyn Seyfu Hinds adapting the e-book. It will air in Canada on Disney+.
Edugyan’s third novel, Washington Black, tells the tale of 11-yr-outdated Washington “Clean” Black, a slave on a Barbados sugar plantation in the 19th century. When a gentleman is killed, Clean has no choice but to escape his captors and ends up on an epic lifetime-spanning adventure all-around the globe. Over years of crossing icy tundra and documenting Atlantic shores, Wash grows into an artist, inventor and explorer.
The e book received the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada’s biggest literary award, in 2018.
“I sense like I am in the ideal hands,” said Edugyan of the adaptation in a the latest job interview with CBC Publications. “I am psyched to see it appear about.”
Edugyan is providing the 2021 Massey Lectures this fall. The speak is based on her nonfiction book Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling.
Brown is an actor recognised for his Emmy-winning roles in This Is Us and The Individuals v. O.J. Simpson: An American Criminal offense Tale. He’ll participate in Medwin Harris, the greater-than-lifestyle leader of the Black neighborhood in Halifax, the place Wash puts down roots and discovers his talent for scientific illustration.
“Washington Black conjures up me!” said Brown in a press launch.
“This youthful male and the journey he undertakes remind me of how the power of creativity and the creativity of artistry can rework the environment in which we stay. Selwyn Seyfu Hinds has taken the transcendent words and phrases of Esi Edugyan and established a amazing universe that delivers to fruition the electrical power of probability.”