‘Washington Black’ Trailer: Sterling K. Brown Brings Beloved Adventure Novel to the Screen

Sterling K. Brown is deepening his roots astatine Hulu. After starring successful nan iconic ABC bid “This Is Us” (and later reteaming pinch creator Dan Fogelman for “Paradise”), nan Emmy victor and Oscar nominee is backmost astatine nan streamer pinch nan caller adjustment of “Washington Black.”

Brown stars successful and executive produces nan bid based connected Esi Edugyan’s bestselling caller of nan aforesaid sanction astir a young boy who leaves a plantation successful nan 1800s and embarks connected an escapade astir nan world. The charismatic synopsis reads: “‘Washington Black’ follows nan 19th-century odyssey of George Washington ‘Wash’ Black, an eleven-year-old boy (Ernest Kingsley Jr.) calved connected a Barbados sweetener plantation, whose prodigious technological mind sets him connected a way of unexpected destiny. When a harrowing incident forces Wash to flee, he is thrust into a globe-spanning escapade that challenges and reshapes his knowing of family, freedom, and love. As he navigates uncharted lands and intolerable odds, Wash finds nan courageousness to ideate a early beyond nan confines of nan nine he was calved into.”

Rupert Graves, Iola Evans, Edward Bluemel, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Eddie Karanja, and Tom Ellis co-star alongside Brown. The task was announced successful 2021.

“Washington Black” is produced by 20th Television Production successful relation pinch Indian Meadows Productions and The Gotham Group. Along pinch Brown, Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, Kimberly Ann Harrison, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Wanuri Kahiu, Mo Marable, Rob Seidenglanz, Jeremy Bell, Lindsay Williams, D.J. Goldberg, Jennifer Johnson, and Anthony Hemingway besides executive produce. Esi Edugyan is co-producer.

Hinds and Harrison are nan showrunners for nan series, which is among IndieWire’s astir anticipated bid of nan season. IndieWire’s Proma Khosla wrote that “Washington Black” is nan apical prime for Hulu debuts this July.

Brown previously told IndieWire’s Anne Thompson he selects his roles based connected which speak to him. “[I want to] support astonishing group arsenic overmuch arsenic I perchance can,” he said. “I bask making group feel. […] I will spell wherever nan communicative is, wherever nan champion communicative is told, pinch awesome imaginative partnerships. I’m happy to beryllium successful a spot wherever I person choice. That’s a rarity successful this business.”

“Washington Black” premieres July 23 on Hulu. Check retired nan trailer below.