E. Lynn Harris’ Invisible Life trilogy of novels is getting the TV treatment.
HBO has put in development a scripted drama series based on the 1990s novels about a young, gay and Black author who fashioned a deeply moving and compelling coming-of-age story out of the then-highly controversial issues of bisexuality and AIDS.
Harrison David Rivers will pen the script and exec produce. Proteus Spann (Soul Food) and Tracey Edmonds (Soul Food, Games People Play) will exec produce.
Initially self-published by Harris in 1991 before being acquired by Anchor Books in 1994, the first novel in the trilogy follows a Black ...
HBO has put in development a scripted drama series based on the 1990s novels about a young, gay and Black author who fashioned a deeply moving and compelling coming-of-age story out of the then-highly controversial issues of bisexuality and AIDS.
Harrison David Rivers will pen the script and exec produce. Proteus Spann (Soul Food) and Tracey Edmonds (Soul Food, Games People Play) will exec produce.
Initially self-published by Harris in 1991 before being acquired by Anchor Books in 1994, the first novel in the trilogy follows a Black ...
E. Lynn Harris’ Invisible Life trilogy of novels is getting the TV treatment.
HBO has put in development a scripted drama series based on the 1990s novels about a young, gay and Black author who fashioned a deeply moving and compelling coming-of-age story out of the then-highly controversial issues of bisexuality and AIDS.
Harris David Rivers will pen the script and co-exec produce. Proteus Spann (Soul Food) and Tracey Edmonds (Soul Food, Games People Play) will exec produce.
Initially self-published by Harris in 1991 before being acquired by Anchor Books in 1994, the first novel in the trilogy follows a Black ...
HBO has put in development a scripted drama series based on the 1990s novels about a young, gay and Black author who fashioned a deeply moving and compelling coming-of-age story out of the then-highly controversial issues of bisexuality and AIDS.
Harris David Rivers will pen the script and co-exec produce. Proteus Spann (Soul Food) and Tracey Edmonds (Soul Food, Games People Play) will exec produce.
Initially self-published by Harris in 1991 before being acquired by Anchor Books in 1994, the first novel in the trilogy follows a Black ...
It was 2 years ago when Tracey Edmonds of Edmonds Entertainment and Proteus Spann of Proteus E2 Productions announced that they had structured a multi-picture deal to develop the extensive library of novels by New York Times best-selling author E. Lynn Harris into feature films. The first production in this overall creative development deal was to be E. Lynn Harris’s blockbuster first novel, Invisible Life, which was to be jointly produced by Edmonds Entertainment and Proteus E2 Productions with Shelia Ducksworth, Glendon Palmer and Javon Johnson as co-producers. Screenwriter Ted Witcher (Love Jones) had been brought on to adapt the novel for the motion picture screen. At...
- 8/22/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
In 2009, after more than six years of effort, Proteus Spann was finally nearing his goal of producing a Broadway musical and a movie based on books by his friend E. Lynn Harris, author of ten consecutive New York Times bestsellers – including the critically acclaimed 1994 novel Invisible Life – that depicted the struggles of closeted African American gay men. With the movie on track to be produced by Spann’s E2 Productions and Tracey Edmonds’ Edmonds Entertainment and a score for the musical completed by Motown legends Ashford and Simpson, Harris came to Los Angeles for a celebratory dinner
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- 8/22/2013
- by Bryn Elise Sandberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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