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Showtime is moving Ethan Hawke's The Good Lord Bird later in the year – a shift designed to put more context around the abolitionist miniseries as the focus sharpens on the issue of systemic racism in the U.S. The Hawke drama was originally intended to premiere on August 9 but will now move its launch to October 4 in…

ATX Television Festival has announced that the first-ever virtual Saturday night marquee event will be a sneak peek and conversation with the team behind Showtime’s upcoming limited series The Good Lord Bird. Scheduled to debut August 9, Blumhouse Television series stars Ethan Hawke, Joshua Caleb Johnson, Ellar…

“Everybody got God on their side in a war,” enslaved teenager Little Onion says. “Trouble is, God ain’t tellin’ nobody who he’s for.” Here is the first trailer for The Good Lord Bird, Showime’s limited series starring Ethan Hawke as John Brown, the antebellum abolitionist who organized an ultimately ill-fated raid on…

“People often like to call him insane,” Ethan Hawke said today about John Brown, the American abolitionist he plays in Showtime’s upcoming miniseries The Good Lord Bird.  But there certainly was something more in James McBride’s National Book Award-winning novel that spoke to the Oscar-nominated actor, especially in…

EXCLUSIVE: Rafael Casal (Blindspotting) is set for a recurring role opposite Ethan Hawke in Showtime's The Good Lord Bird based on James McBride's novel, from Blumhouse Television. The Good Lord Bird is told from the point of view of Onion (Joshua Johnson-Lionel), a fictional enslaved boy, who is part of John Brown's…

Grammy and Tony Award winner Daveed Diggs (Hamilton) and Wyatt Russell (Lodge 49) are for key roles opposite Ethan Hawke in Showtime’s The Good Lord Bird based on James McBride’s novel, from Blumhouse Television. The eight-part limited event series will premiere on Sunday, February 16, 2020 at 10 PM ET/PT. The Good Lor…

EXCLUSIVE: Joshua Johnson-Lionel is set to star opposite Ethan Hawke in the forthcoming Showtime limited series The Good Lord Bird from Blumhouse Television. Based on the National Book Award-winning novel of the same name by James McBride, Johnson-Lionel will step into the lead role of Onion (aka Henry Shackleford), a…

In his first major foray into television, filmmaker Albert Hughes (Alpha, Menace II Society) has signed on to executive produce and direct multiple episodes of Showtime limited series The Good Lord Bird, starring Ethan Hawke. The Good Lord Bird, based on James McBride’s 2013 novel, is told from the point of view of…

Few match-ups of this Broadway season seemed more right from the get-go than the Roundabout Theatre Company’s True West, director James Macdonald’s staging of Sam Shepard’s 1980 play starring Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano. The two actors not only stand among the finest of their generations, but each has, for better or…

During SXSW in 2016, Ethan Hawke and Jason Blum were riding together in Austin's dizzying traffic when Hawke told Blum about a book he had just read with his wife. It was called The Ggod Lord Bird, and he thought they should bring it to the screen. From there, Hawke said, "dominoes started falling." And Monday…

Ethan Hawke and Jason Blum are certainly going to have some The Good Lord Bird to talk about today on-stage at SXSW now that Showtime has officially ordered the limited series. His deal having just closed in the past few days, multiple Oscar nominee Hawke will play pivotal 19th-century abolitionist John Brown in the Bl…