Starz has given the inexperienced gentle to a half-hour dramedy spin-off of Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal‘s critically acclaimed 2018 movie Blindspotting. Diggs and Casal, who wrote and starred within the movie, will function showrunners on the brand new sequence and Casal may even play a recurring position onscreen.
The spin-off is centered on Ashley (Jasmine Cephas Jones), a younger mom who’s ripped from her comparatively center class life in Oakland when the daddy of her youngster, Miles (Casal), is abruptly incarcerated, as she tries to navigate her new regular after transferring in with Miles’s household. Cephas Jones will reprise her position as Ashely and in addition function a producer on the sequence.
“Allow us to put you up on recreation, bruh. No description will embody the complexity of a Blindspotting sequence, ya dig?” mentioned Diggs and Casal in an announcement. “So simply get juiced, cuz it stars Jasmine Cephas Jones, it is set in Oakland, and we’re making it, so it is light-weight finna to be hella good and the soundtrack will certainly slap. OH BOY!”
Blindspotting garnered important accolades for its sharp interrogation of id, privilege, and gentrification by way of the lens of an interracial friendship that is examined when one spirals into prison actions as the opposite desperately tries to keep away from violating his parole. The movie was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2018.