Amblin Television (“The Americans,” “The Haunting of Hill House”) and author Walter Mosley are teaming to adapt Mosley’s iconic gritty detective character Ezekiel ‘Easy’ Rawlins for television.
The character is a Black World War II Army veteran turned hard-boiled private eye in 1950s Los Angeles. The new series will honour the books’ detective genre along with exploring the racial inequalities and social injustice of the time.
A network/streaming service is not yet attached. Mosley, who has also worked on FX’s “Snowfall,” and Sylvain White will executive produce.
Denzel Washington previously played the character on the screen in the 1995 film “Devil in a Blue Dress”.
Source: The Live Feed
