‘Black Cake’: Adrienne Warren To Star In Hulu Drama Series, Andrew Dosunmu To Direct Pilot
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Adrienne Warren is set as a lead in Hulu drama series Black Cake, from Women of the Movement creator Marissa Jo Cerar, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment.
Andrew Dosunmu (Where Is Kyra?) has been tapped to direct the pilot episode of the project, which landed at the Disney streamer with a straight-to-series order last fall.Black Cake, based on the book by Charmaine Wilkerson, marks a reunion for Warren with Cerar, Kaplan and Disney following their collaboration on Women of the Movement.
Warren starred as Mamie Till-Mobley in the ABC limited series, which was created by Cerar and produced by Kapital.Hulu Pilots & Series OrdersCerar serves as showrunner on Black Cake, a family drama wrapped in a murder mystery with a diverse cast of characters and a global setting that spans decades.
The story takes place in Jamaica, Rome, Scotland, England and Southern California.In the late 1960s, a runaway bride named Covey disappears into the surf off the coast of Jamaica and is feared drowned or a fugitive on the run for her husband’s murder.
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