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Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. When writer-director Nikyatu Jusu began hatching her first feature Nanny a little less than a decade ago, she worried that the story at hand might be…

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When Anna Diop first read Nikyatu Jusu’s script for Nanny, she was “blown away” by the story at hand and the way in which Jusu told it. “I was familiar with Nikyatu’s work because of a short she did called Suicide by [Sunlight] that everyone had seen, it seemed like, and was in love with,” the actress said recently an…

Have you ever sensed something is off in your life, and you see the signs but ignore them? Surely, that's happened to everyone at one time or another. But have those 'signs' ever become so surreal and visceral you're not sure what's real and what's reality? That is the core dilemma of Nikyatu Jusu's horror…

EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Monaghan is set to co-star opposite Anna Diop in the Stay Gold Features And Topic Studios Pic Nanny. Topic Studios, Stay Gold Pictures and LinLay Productions had teamed up to finance and produce. Nikyatu Jusu will write and direct. A timely thriller that puts the immigrant story front and center…

EXCLUSIVE: Anna Diop is set to star in the Stay Gold Features And Topic Studios Pic Nanny. Topic Studios, Stay Gold Pictures and LinLay Productions had teamed up to finance and produce. Nikyatu Jusu will write and direct. A timely thriller that puts the immigrant story front and center, the film follows an…

EXCLUSIVE: Jordan Peele's Us continues to beef up its cast, with Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Anna Diop the latest to join the thriller starring The Handmaid’s Tale‘s Elisabeth Moss, Black Panther stars Lupita Nyong'o and Winston Duke, and Tim Heidecker. Peele is writing and directing the pic, the follow-up to his…

24: Legacy alumna Anna Diop has landed one of the leads, the series-regular role of Starfire, in the new live-action series Titans, from Greg Berlanti, Akiva Goldsman, Geoff Johns, Sarah Schechter and Warner Bros TV. She joins Australian newcomer Teagan Croft, who was cast as another lead, Raven, in the series that’s…

The Messengers alum Anna Diop has been cast opposite Corey Hawkins and Miranda Otto in Fox pilot 24: Legacy, which reboots the 24 franchise with brand new characters and cast. Written by 24 veterans Manny Coto and Evan Katz and directed by Stephen Hopkins (who helmed the original 24 pilot), 24: Legacy chronicles…

Barry Rothbart has joined the cast of ABC comedy pilot Downward Dog, based on the web series produced by Animal Media Group and creators/writers Samm Hodges and Michael Killen. It centers on Nan (Allison Tolman), a disorganized, unapologetic woman, and her dog (voiced by Hodges). Lucas Neff also stars. Rothbart will…