20th Television Studios is developing a new series for Disney’s streaming services called, “Washington Black” and according to Variety, Charles Dance has joined the cast of the project.

This new nine-episode limited series is being adapted from Esi Edugyan’s novel and is set in the 19th century and follows Washington “Wash” Black (Ernest Kingsley Jr.) as he flees from a Barbados sugar plantation after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. He becomes the protégé of Medwin Harris (Sterling K. Brown), a Black refugee from Nova Scotia who serves as the de facto major of Black Halifax. While trying to outrun his past and the hunters on his tail, he meets Tanna (Lola Evans), a young wealthy British woman who passed as white but was secretly born of a Melanesian mother on the Solomon Islands, forcing her and her father to flee London for Nova Scotia. Tanna’s father pushes her into an arranged marriage with a white merchant to protect her, but she falls in love with Wash and begins to wonder what her life could be like with him.

Also starring in this series is Tom Ellis, Eddie Karanja, Edward Bluemel, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Rupert Graves and Shaunette Renée Wilson.

Charles Dance has previously starred in “The Crown”, “The King’s Man” and “Game Of Thrones”

“Washington Black” is being created for Disney’s streaming service, so it will be a Hulu Original in the United States and we should expect to see it on Star+ in Latin America and on Disney+ in other countries like the UK, Australia and Canada.

This nine-episode limited series is being written and executive produced by “Twilight Zone writer Selwyn Seyfu Hinds.  It will also be executive produced by Sterling K. Brown, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell, Lindsay Williams and DJ Goldberg, Anthony Hemingway and Jennifer Johnson. Esi Edugyan is a co-producer on this project.

Are you looking forward to “Washington Black”?

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