by Jeroslyn JoVonn
April 19, 2024
Anthony Anderson might star and govt produce a restricted sequence on Rev. Al Sharpton.
There’s an Al Sharpton restricted sequence within the works that has a robust probability 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 studies. 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 govt 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 might be.” After many years 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 buddies.”
Activist, politician, and minister who based the Nationwide Motion Community (NAN) in 1991, Sharpton has been a forward-facing figurehead throughout the Black group because the Nineteen 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 Nineteen Nineties and the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidency in 2004.
Anthony starred and govt produced ABC’s “black-ish” which garnered him 11 Emmy nominations. His most up-to-date onscreen work consists of reprising his function as Detective Kevin Barnard on the twenty first season of “Regulation 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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