by Jeroslyn JoVonn
April 19, 2024
Anthony Anderson may star and government produce a restricted sequence on Rev. Al Sharpton.
There’s an Al Sharpton restricted sequence within the works that has a powerful chance of starring and being executive-produced by Anthony Anderson.
Primarily based on the Esquire profile of the famed civil rights activist, “The Redemption of Al Sharpton” has been acquired by ABC Signature to be developed as a restricted sequence, Deadline reviews. Pulitzer Prize winner Mitchell S. Jackson, who penned the profile, will obtain a producer credit score, alongside Evi Regev from Anderson’s Simply A Child From Compton manufacturing firm who will government produce with Artists First’s E. Brian Dobbins.
The profile adopted Sharpton to search out out “why he retains going, what he’s nonetheless doing, and the place his place in historical past shall be.” After a long time of controversy and criticism surrounding his work, the profile makes an attempt to redeem Sharpton as “a beacon of the civil rights motion” and as “a loudmouth in a tracksuit, surrounded by controversy and shady pals.”
Activist, politician, and minister who based the Nationwide Motion Community (NAN) in 1991, Sharpton has been a forward-facing figurehead inside the Black group for the reason that Nineties. His controversial protests on civil rights points helped him obtain nationwide consideration from the media and authorities.
When launching NAN, Sharpton used it to advertise progressive reform for Black People together with affirmative motion and reparations for descendants of the previously enslaved. Throughout his profession, Sharpton has endured a number of unsuccessful makes an attempt at election together with the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York Metropolis and U.S. Senator from New York state within the Nineties and the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidency in 2004.
Anthony starred and government produced ABC’s “black-ish” which garnered him 11 Emmy nominations. His most up-to-date onscreen work contains reprising his position as Detective Kevin Barnard on the twenty first season of “Legislation and Order.” Portraying Al Sharpton in a restricted sequence would spotlight Anderson’s vary as an actor and skillset as an EP.
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