The creative minds behind This Is Us, actor Sterling K. Brown and the show’s creator Dan Fogelman, have an upcoming original web series for Hulu, and it will be a thriller with some political elements.
The show is an adaptation of a novel called Washington Black, and it is a nine-episode limited series on Hulu, according to TV Lines.
Regardless of what the Hulu show is based on, details are scarce, including that it is an untitled thriller.
If the novel written by Esi Edugyan is a solid foundation for what to expect, the show could follow the story of a young slave named Washington Black, set in the early 19th century on a sugar plantation in Barbados. Washington, who is about 11 years old, is owned by a cruel and abusive master, and his future seems bleak.
Brown, who played Randall Pearson in the hit NBC drama, will star as the “head of security for a former president,” and was excited to reveal the news to Variety.
Brown’s portrayal of Randall won him two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and to this day, he is drawn to the cast after the show ended in 2022.
The show ran on the Peacock Network for six seasons.
The commercial success of the 2016 series can be attributed to its emotional storytelling, complex characters, and nonlinear narrative structure, which audiences and critics have praised.
“I was like, ‘To not see [the cast] regularly in my life makes me a little sad.’ I still got your phone numbers. Like, I can still call Mandy Moore, which gives me some credibility. But to not be able to see you every day, I’ll miss you. I’ll miss the story that we’ve had a chance to tell with one another. And I can’t wait for 20 years to do an E! True Hollywood Story. It’s going to be awesome,” he said at the Television Critics Association.
In addition to being the creator and executive producer of “This Is Us,” for which he received numerous accolades, including multiple Emmy nominations and a Writers Guild of America Award for Episodic Drama, Fogelman began his career as a screenwriter, working on films such as “Cars” (2006), “Tangled” (2010), “Crazy, Stupid, Love” (2011) and “The Guilt Trip” (2012). He then made his directorial debut with the film Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Fogelman’s other television credits include the musical comedy series “Galavant” and the drama series “Pitch.” He also wrote and directed the 2018 romantic drama film “Life Itself.”
