Elle Johnson To Write, Exec Produce & Showrun ‘A Soldier’s Story’ Limited Series Starring David Alan Grier
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Elle Johnson (Bosch) has been tapped to write, executive produce and serve as showrunner on A Soldier’s Story, a limited series adaptation of the award-winning A Soldier’s Play, which has been in development at Sony Pictures Television with the play’s Tony winner David Alan Grier attached to star and executive produce.Grier, who won the 2021 Tony Award for his role as Sgt.
Vernon Waters in the Broadway play, will play the character’s father in the series adaptation, which spans multiple wars and several decades and centers on Sgt.
Vernon Waters and the emotional impact he is subjected to as a soldier in the 1940s.The Pulitzer-winning A Soldier’s Play, written by Charles Fuller, is set at a Black army base in the segregated Louisiana of 1944.
Sergeant Waters has been murdered, and Army captain Davenport – played by Blair Underwood in the Broadway play — arrives at the base to investigate the crime, which might or might not involve the local KKK or even the many Black soldiers who openly despite their hated sergeant.Bernie Cahill and Jon Kanak of Activist Artists Management, who approached Sony about developing the series alongside Grier, executive produce alongside Grier and Johnson.
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