This is actually an idea that has been discussed on this blog previously, and it’s now officially becoming a reality.
HBO has added a Harriet Tubman biopic to its upcoming slate, which Viola Davis is attached to star in.
It’s not to be confused with WGN America’s scripted series that will center on stories of the fabled Underground Railroad, or the Tubman project Russell Simmons said he was developing in 2013 (no word on whether he still is).
The Viola Davis/HBO project will be based on the book, "Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero," by historian Kate Clifford Larson, which was published in 2004, and draws from new documents…
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