‘moonlight’ director barry jenkins working on new ‘underground railroad’ tv series

‘Moonlight’’s Barry Jenkins has signed on to director the limited series adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed novel, ‘The Underground Railroad’. Jenkins will also write the adaptation, which is being produced by Pastel, a company co-founded by Jenkins, and Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment. The project has been in development for a little while now, but Amazon announced their involvement yesterday. It unknown when the project will drop or how many episodes it will have at this time. Stay tuned.

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