Jessie Abbott is overseeing for Kapital.Ĭerar read Wilkerson’s novel, which will be published in 2022, as she was closing an overall deal with Kapital, the production company behind the upcoming ABC Emmett Till limited series Women of the Movement, which Cerar created, executive produces and showruns. Harpo’s Emily Rudolf Kapital co-executive produces. The series is executive produced by Cerar, Harpo Films’ Winfrey and Carla Gardini and Kapital Entertainment’s Kaplan. Islanders then modified the recipe, incorporating their local ingredients. Black cake evolved from the British plum pudding that colonizers brought to the West Indies.

The book - and its series adaptation - are named after a dish that signifies the marriage of cultures at the heart of the story.

These stories, narrated by Eleanor, shock her children and challenge everything they thought they knew about their family’s origin. Fifty years later in California, Eleanor Bennett, a widow in her 60s, loses her battle with cancer, leaving her two estranged children a flash drive that holds previously untold stories of her journey from the Caribbean to America. In the late 1960s, a runaway bride named Covey disappears into the surf off the coast of Jamaica and is feared drowned or a fugitive on the run for her husband’s murder.

The story takes place in Jamaica, Rome, Scotland, England and Southern California.Ĭerar, who played a key part in putting the project together, will write the adaptation as part of her overall deal with Kapital and will serve as showrunner on the series, which spans decades. Based on the upcoming book by Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake is a family drama wrapped in a murder mystery with a diverse cast of characters and a global setting.

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