“The Orville” star and creator Seth MacFarlane and “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman are teaming up to executive produce a limited series centered on the Little Rock Nine.
Based on Carlotta Walls LaNier’s memoir “A Mighty Long Way,” the story unfolds in 1957 after the landmark Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education.
Fourteen-year-old Carlotta is among the first black students to attend the all-white Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas. She walks into an unexpectedly violent struggle against integration, which suddenly turns her and the other black students into civil rights icons.
Graduating with her diploma means risking her life, but she searches for a way to keep her humanity intact at school and beyond. American playwright Eisa Davis is set to write and executive produce alongside MacFarlane.
Walls LaNier, the youngest member of the Little Rock Nine and the first African-American woman to graduate from the integrated high school, will serve as a consultant on the miniseries which is setup at Universal Content Productions.
Source: The Wrap
