Kerry Washington To Produce & Star In Hulu Drama Series ‘Old City Blues’Posted by Wilson Morales
August 13, 2018
Source: THR
Via The Hollywood Reporter, Kerry Washington will star in and executive produce Old City Blues, a sci-fi graphic novel published by Boom! Studios/Archaia in 2011.
Director Gore Verbinski is also attached to direct Old City Blues, while Arash Amel is slated to write the script, which is currently in development.
Old City Blues began as a web comic written and illustrated by Giannis Milonogiannis. The story takes place in 2048 in a city known as New Athens, which exists on top of the ruins of Greece. In this world, the New Athens Special Police are called upon to protect the citizens from high tech criminals, drug dealers, and rampant corruption in the political and corporate arenas. However, the city is thrown into chaos when the cyborg founder of the Hayashi corporation is brutally murdered. What initially seems like a case of cyborg persecution soon unravels into a larger mystery that leads the heroes into the wasteland known as the Old City.
THR states that it’s unclear which character Washington will portray. However, it’s entirely possible that the lead heroes and the setting will be re-envisioned with an American audience in mind.
Chris Black (Outcast) will serve as the showrunner of Old City Blues, and he will executive produce the series alongside Amel, Washington, and Verbinski. Allison Davis is co-writing the script with Amel, and a writers room has already been assembled for the potential series.
Should the series move forward, it will be Washington’s second show on Hulu following her role in Little Fires Everywhere. Washington recently finished up a seven season run on ABC’s Shonda Rhimes series, Scandal.
