Sheba, a one-hour-scripted drama sequence, from Chantelle Wells (Yellowjackets), Azie Tesfai (Supergirl) and Ryan Coogler’s Proximity Media, is being developed by Onyx Collective for Hulu. The venture was introduced Saturday throughout Onyx Collective’s panel on the Sundance Film Festival.
Co-created by Wells and Tesfai, and written by Wells, Sheba explores the rise to energy of the primary queen on the continent of Africa as she seeks to unite the nation we now know as Ethiopia, making it one of many richest, most formidable kingdoms on the planet. Inspired by true occasions, we comply with Makeda right into a world of hazard, deceit and political intrigue as she is pressured to step into a job that nobody, together with her, ever imagined because the Queen of Sheba.
Proximity Media will govt produce through their general take care of Onyx Collective, together with Wells, Tesfai and Proximity Media’s Coogler, Kalia King, Sev Ohanian and Zinzi Coogler.
Wells is an Emmy-nominated author and producer, most lately on Marvel’s upcoming restricted sequence Echo for Disney+. Wells has additionally written for Showtime’s Emmy-nominated drama Yellowjackets, for which she was additionally nominated for 2 Writers Guild Awards. While incomes her grasp’s for writing and producing for tv from Loyola Marymount University, Wells wrote an authentic pilot, which landed her the CBS Writing Fellowship en path to her first TV writing job on The CW’s Jane the Virgin, adopted by NBC’s Good Girls.
Tesfai co-starred and wrote on CW’s Supergirl as ex-military psychologist Kelly Olsen and DC comics superhero The Guardian. The first Ethiopian particular person to ever painting a comic book superhero on display, Tesfai beforehand performed murder detective Nadine Hansan in CW’s Jane The Virgin. Tesfai is at the moment writing a pilot, The Chase, which is in improvement at NBC.
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