Denzel Washington Is Bringing August Wilson’s Entire American Century Cycle Plays to the Screen Via HBO

UPDATE: Via a live stream of a conversation between Denzel Washington and Dr Todd Boyd happening at USC School of Cinematic Arts as I type this, Washington just revealed that, in addition to the below previously-announced film adaptation of August Wilson’s "Fences" (which he’ll star in – along with Viola Davis – and direct), he’s inked a deal with HBO that will see him bring to the screen, Wilson’s American Century Cycle series, which consists of 10 plays portraying the 20th century African American experience, from the early 1900s, just after slavery and the Civil War, to the 1990s, which saw a large and increasingly influential black middle class still having…

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