EXCLUSIVE: The Wonders Year pilot is adding to its cast.Kid actors Milan Ray, Julian Lerner and Amari O’Neil are joining ABC’s reboot alongside Elisha “EJ” Williams, who has been taped to play Dean Williams, the new Kevin Arnold.The Wonder Years single-camera comedy reboot pilot comes from Dave exec producer Saladin Patterson, Fred Savage and Empire co-creator Lee Daniels.Written by Patterson and directed by Savage, the reboot of the classic 1980s family comedy-drama is set in the same era as the original.
It looks at how the Williamses, a Black middle-class family in Montgomery, AL, in the turbulent late 1960s made sure it was the Wonder Years for them too.Psych alum Dulé Hill and In The Dark’s Saycon Sengbloh star as Dean’s parents.
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