Steve McQueen is providing an update on his Small Axe series. What originally was supposed to be an anthology TV series will now be five feature films, IndieWire reports.
The five movies will be titled Lovers Rock, Mangrove, Alex Wheatle, Education, and Red, White and Blue. The five films of Small Axe tell “personal stories about London’s West Indian community from the late-1960’s to mid-1980’s.
The title is derived from an African proverb, which has resonance throughout the Caribbean, ‘if you are the big tree, we are the small axe.’ This was made popular by Bob Marley and the Wailers with the song ‘Small Axe’ from the 1973 album ‘Burnin,’” according to BBC’s official synopsis.
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