Exclusive: Chicago’s first Black mayor Harold Washington, an influential figure to politicians including President Barack Obama, is getting the TV treatment.
Ike Holter, a writer on FX’s Fosse/Verdon, is penning a limited series about Washington for Wayfarer Studios, the production company founded by Jane The Virgin star Justin Baldoni, who produced and directed Disney+’s Clouds, and billionaire Paylocity founder Steve Sarowitz.
The untitled series is based on Gary Rivlin’s book Fire on the Prairie, which was published in 1992.
It will tell the story of Washington, who toppled political corruption and empowered an entire community of Black voters during the city’s quickly changing landscape of the 1980s.
In a move that echoes Stacy Abrams’ work in Georgia, Washington was able to win the Democratic mayoral primary by registering hundreds of thousands of new voters, including a coalition with Latino reformed gang Young Lord. This multiracial coalition...
Ike Holter, a writer on FX’s Fosse/Verdon, is penning a limited series about Washington for Wayfarer Studios, the production company founded by Jane The Virgin star Justin Baldoni, who produced and directed Disney+’s Clouds, and billionaire Paylocity founder Steve Sarowitz.
The untitled series is based on Gary Rivlin’s book Fire on the Prairie, which was published in 1992.
It will tell the story of Washington, who toppled political corruption and empowered an entire community of Black voters during the city’s quickly changing landscape of the 1980s.
In a move that echoes Stacy Abrams’ work in Georgia, Washington was able to win the Democratic mayoral primary by registering hundreds of thousands of new voters, including a coalition with Latino reformed gang Young Lord. This multiracial coalition...
- 1/12/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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