Regina King, John Ridley Reunite To Develop ‘No Place Safe’ for FX NetworksPosted by Wilson Morales
April 12, 2017
Source: Variety
According to Variety, Two-time Emmy Award winner Regina King is re-teaming with her American Crime series creator and producer John Ridley to develop No Place Safe for FX Networks.
The series is about the Atlanta child murders in the late 1970s and 1980s, and based on on Kim Reid’s memoir “No Place Safe,” inspired by her life story. ABC Signature Studios is producing the series. Wendy Calhoun (Empire) is adapting the book as well as executive producing with Ridley, Michael McDonald (American Crime), Reina King and Regina King.
The Amazon synopsis for the book states: “Between 1979 and 1981, twenty-nine children disappeared from the streets of Atlanta. In this compelling memoir, Kim Reid grows up in the shadow of her mother’s job as an investigator on the Missing and Murdered Children case. Thirteen-year-old Kim Reid will never forget the summer of 1979. When she isn’t thinking about boys, makeup, and starting high school in the fall, she’s busy taking care of her little sister while her single mom works as a cop. By midsummer, the discovery of two murdered teens along a quiet Atlanta road changes everything.”
Regina King is known for her work on the series American Crime, for which she has won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie. She’s also known for The Leftovers, which is about to begin its third and final season on HBO. Ridley won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave.
