A drama based on Wesley Lowery's bestselling nonfiction book They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice, has been put in development by AMC. The show comes from Brad Weston's Makeready production company, and writer LaToya Morgan (Into the Badlands, Turn: Washington's Spies).
The book was published in 2016 by Little, Brown & Company, and was acquired by Makeready last fall. It examines how decades of racially biased policing in segregated neighborhoods with failing schools, crumbling infrastructure, and too few jobs has led to the high-profile cases of police brutality in Ferguson, Cleveland, Baltimore and other cities, and led to the Black Lives Matter movement seeking justice for the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and Freddie Gray.
The potential series will also reflect current events and race relations through the stories and voices of fictional characters. Morgan, who has a deal at AMC, will write the show and executive produce alongside Makeready founder and CEO Weston, as well as with creative heads Pam Abdy and Scott Nemes.
Lowery, a reporter at The Washington Post, was on the front lines reporting during the protests and unrest following the deaths of Michael Brown and more. He was a leader on the paper's "Fatal Force" project, a database that tracked 990 police shootings in 2015. The project won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2016.
Source: deadline.com
