Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has won a spec auction for The Ancestor, a psychological thriller script by Kay Oyegun that will be developed as a star vehicle for Tika Sumter, produced by Michael B.
Jordan and Alana Mayo’s Outlier Society. I’ve heard the deal was high six figures.Several suitors were in the mix for the spec which Oyegun wrote from a story she hatched with Sumpter, who’ll play an African American female med student who finds herself in a timely psychological thriller premise in the tradition of Get Out.
Sumter has co-starred in the Ride Along films and played the future First Lady Michelle Robinson Obama in Southside With You.
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