Hulu has set a July premiere date for Washington Black, the Sterling Okay. Brown-fronted adaptation of Esi Edugyan’s novel. The collection, which obtained a straight-to-series order, will launch with all eight episodes on Wednesday, July 23 on Hulu within the U.S. and Disney+ internationally.
Based mostly on the bestselling novel of the identical identify, Washington Black follows the Nineteenth-century odyssey of George Washington “Wash” Black, an eleven-year-old boy born on a Barbados sugar plantation, whose prodigious scientific thoughts units him on a path of sudden future. When a harrowing incident forces Wash to flee, he’s thrust right into a globe-spanning journey that challenges and reshapes his understanding of household, freedom and love. As he navigates uncharted lands and inconceivable odds, Wash finds the braveness to think about a future past the confines of the society he was born into.
Brown stars and govt produces the collection. Additionally starring are Ernest Kingsley Jr., Rupert Graves, Iola Evans, Edward Bluemel, Sharon Duncan Brewster, Eddie Karanja and Tom Ellis.
Washington Black is produced by twentieth Tv in affiliation with Indian Meadows Productions and The Gotham Group. Selwyn Hinds, Kim Harrison, Brown, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Wanuri Kahiu, Mo Marable, Rob Seidenglanz, Jeremy Bell, Lindsay Williams, D.J. Goldberg, Jennifer Johnson and Anthony Hemingway govt produce. Hinds and Harrison are additionally showrunners for the collection. Edugyan is co-producer.
