HBO has put in development The Vanishing Half, a drama based on Brit Bennett’s bestselling novel, from writers Aziza Barnes (BLKS) and Jeremy O.
Harris (Slave Play), Issa Rae and her Hoorae production banner and Stephanie Allain’s Homegrown Pictures. Barnes and Harris will pen the adaptation.As Deadline previously reported, HBO acquired the book in 2020 in a highly competitive situation.In The Vanishing Half, the twin Vignes sisters will always be identical.
But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it’s everything: their families, their communities, the essence of who they are.
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