Barracoon Based On Book In Works As Limited TV Series By Common & Lionsgate
Courtesy of UTA Lionsgate and Commons Freedom Road Productions have acquired the rights..
Courtesy of UTA
Lionsgate and Commons Freedom Road Productions have acquired the rights to Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo, the critically praised, recently discovered book by 20th century writer Zora Neale Hurston, to develop as a limited television event series.
Barracoon centers on 86-year-old Cudjo Lewis, the last known survivor of the Middle Passage who was brought to America in 1927. The book, which was unpublished until earlier this year, chronicles Cudjos time of slavery and the profound complexities of reconstruction and freedom after the Atlantic slave trade was abolished.
This is the second project coming out of Lionsgate and Freedom Roads TV deal. Lionsgate and Freedom Road are already developing the Saturday Night Knife and Gun Club TV adaptation starring and produced by Common.
Hurston also is the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God.
