EXCLUSIVE: The Wonder Years reboot has found its narrator. Don Cheadle has been tapped to play adult Dean Williams in ABC’s single-camera pilot from Saladin Patterson, the original series’ Fred Savage and Lee Daniels.Written by Patterson and directed by Savage, the reboot of the classic 1980s family comedy-drama is set in the same era as the original.
It looks at how the Williamses, a Black middle-class family in Montgomery, AL, in the turbulent late 1960s made sure it was the Wonder Years for them too.The new Wonder Years centers on the family’s teenage son Dean Williams (Elisha “EJ” Williams) much like the original series focused on Kevin Arnold (Savage).
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