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The eyepatch may be gone, but Samuel L. Jackson is still playing the hero. In The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Jackson—best known for playing Nick Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe—plays a reclusive old man with dementia who is given a miracle drug to help him remember his past. Though the cure is only temporary…

When it came to bringing The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey from the pages of Walter Mosley's novel to screens on Apple TV+, the writer and star Samuel L. Jackson agree that the long haul – with over a decade of development – due to their commitment to telling the epic story through the long form of television – was worth…

EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Majors is set to star in The Man In My Basement, the film adaptation of the Walter Mosley novel. Majors will also serve as an executive producer, under his Tall Street Productions banner. Protagonist Pictures will fully finance and cameras are expected to roll in the fall. Nadia Latif will make her…

Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, a character created by author Walter Mosley, is getting another shot on television after Amblin Television signed up to develop a series. The production company has closed a deal to adapt Mosley's stories – Rawlins has appeared in 15 novels and short stories – with The Americans and Amazing Stor…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has greenlighted The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, a six-episode limited series starring and executive produced by Samuel L. Jackson. It is based on the acclaimed novel by best-selling author Walter Mosley who will write the screen adaptation and executive produce. In the series, produced by Apple…

EXCLUSIVE: The Man In My Basement, Walter Mosley's acclaimed novel, is heading to the big screen with the American author scripting his own adaptation. Nadia Latif, the emerging Sudanese-British director, has been brought onboard to helm the adaptation, her feature debut. She recently completed a run as Associate…

Acclaimed novelist Walter Mosley revealed today that he decided to leave Star Trek: Discovery after his use of a racial epithet in the writers room of the CBS All Access series resulted in Human Resources telling him that "I could not use that word except in a script." "My answer to H.R. was to resign and move on,"…

The TCA panel for the third season of FX drama Snowfall reflected on series co-creator John Singleton in the wake of his death in April at 51 and how they’re continuing to tell the story of his hometown South Central LA. “He told truthful stories about people who had been ignored, who had been depicted in a negative…