Claws star Niecy Nash will be starring opposite Adrienne Warren in ABC’s limited series Women of the Movement.
Marissa Jo Cerar is on board as creator-writer and will be joining forces with producing team that includes Jay-Z, Will Smith and Aaron Kaplan.
The upcoming series centers on Mamie Till-Mobley (Warren), who devoted her life to seeking justice for her son Emmett Till.
Nash will play Alma, Emmett Till’s grandmother. After Emmett’s 1955 murder in Mississippi, Alma, a young grandmother who had been like a second mother to Emmett, fought to protect her family in Chicago while her daughter Mamie traveled the country seeking justice in Emmett’s name. A force of nature, Alma was Mamie’s rock in the face of unbelievable tragedy, Deadline reports.
Women of the Movement is inspired by the book Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement by Devery S. Anderson. Cerar serves as showrunner and executive produces with Jay-Z, Jay Brown and Tyran “Ty Ty” Smith via Roc Nation; Will Smith and James Lassiter for Overbrook; as well as Aaron Kaplan, Dana Honor and Michael Lohmann of Kapital Entertainment. Also executive producing are Gina Prince-Bythewood, who will direct the first episode, Rosanna Grace for Serendipity Film Group; Alex Foster and John Powers Middleton of Middleton Media Group; and David Clark via Mazo Partners. Kapital Entertainment is the studio.
The upcoming movie is set to premiere in 2021,
