EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired the David F. Walker action comic The Hated for a potential live action western series.
The prime mover here is Michael Starrbury, the Emmy-nominated writer who teamed with Ava DuVernay on When They See Us and Colin in Black & White, the Netflix series on Colin Kaepernick.
Starrbury will be EP along with Prime Universe Films’ Adrian Askariah, Walker and Sean Owolo.It’ll be a female-driven post-Civil War revisionist history western, based on the exploits of Araminta Free, a gun-slinging bounty hunter in a world where the Civil War ended differently – instead of a victory for the North, there is a truce, and what had been one country is now two.
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