Seth MacFarlane Teams Up With Chadwick Boseman For a Little Rock Nine Drama Series
Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy, The Orville) has jumped on a new project that will tell the story of Carlotta Walls, the youngest member of the Little Rock Nine. He is teaming up with She’s Gotta Have It writer Eisa Davis and Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther) to bring this drama series to life.
The project is based on Carlotta Walls LaNier’s memoir A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High, the series will tell the story of how “14 year-old Carlotta Walls became one of the first black students to attend the all-white Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas following the landmark Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education.”
Walls LaNier is also a consultant on the project and is sure to offer some extremely valuable insight. She walked into “an unexpectedly violent struggle against integration, which suddenly turned her and the other black students into civil rights icons. For Carlotta – a teenager at the center of a cataclysmic moment in American history – graduating with her diploma meant risking her life. But she searched for a way to keep her humanity intact at school and beyond, losing then regaining her selfhood in a coming of age leavened by humor, family, friendship, and solidarity.”
This project marks MacFarlane’s second project with UCP, which is a division Universal Studio Group, since striking a deal with NBCUniversal. It was also recently announced that MacFarlane is adapting Herman Wouk’s The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, with Seth Fisher (The Alienist) as a limited series.
Source: Deadline