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Oscar-winning director of Moonlight Barry Jenkins will be the director The movie will further explore the mythology of the iconic characters, including Mufasa's origin story Pierre previously worked with Jenkins on the acclaimed Amazon series The Underground Railroad and will play Mufasa while Harrison Jr will play Taka Additional casting is in process with more big names[...]

Academy Award-winner Barry Jenkins is the creative team behind the series, based on the novel by Colson Whitehead Thuso Mbedu, Chase W Dillon, and Joel Edgerton star alongside Aaron Pierre, William Jackson Harper, Sheila Atim, Amber Gray, Peter De Jersey, Chukwudi Iwuji, Damon Herriman, Lily Rabe, Irone Singleton, Mychal-Bella Bowman, Marcus "MJ" Gladney, Jr., Will[...]

Adapted from Colson Whitehead's bestselling novel of the same name and directed by Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), Edgerton joins a cast that includes Thuso Mbedu, Chase W Dillon, and Aaron Pierre and will play Ridgeway, a slavecatcher Jenkins is set to direct all 11 episodes of the one-hour series, and will executive produce through his Pastel[...]