Marissa Jo Cerar, Oprah Winfrey & Aaron Kaplan’s ‘Black Cake’ drama series ordered by Hulu

After a heated offering war, Hulu has handled the drama Black Cake, from Women of the Movement maker Marissa Jo Cerar, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment with a series order.

In view of the impending book by Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake is a family show enclosed by a homicide secret with a different cast of characters and a worldwide setting. The story happens in Jamaica, Rome, Scotland, England and Southern California.

Cerar, who had a critical influence in assembling the project, will compose the variation as a component of her general arrangement with Kapital and will fill in as showrunner on the series, which traverses many years.

In the last part of the 1960s, a runaway lady named Covey vanishes into the surf off the bank of Jamaica and is dreaded suffocated or a fugitive on the run for her significant other’s homicide. After fifty years in California, Eleanor Bennett, a widow in her 60s, loses her fight with malignancy, leaving her two offended kids a glimmer drive that holds beforehand untold accounts of her excursion from the Caribbean to America. These accounts, described by Eleanor, shock her youngsters and challenge all that they thought they thought about their family’s starting point.

The book — and its series adaptation — are named after a dish that means the marriage of societies at the core of the story. Dark cake advanced from the British plum pudding that colonizers brought toward the West Indies. Islanders then, at that point, altered the recipe, consolidating their nearby fixings.

The series is executive produced by Cerar, Harpo Films’ Winfrey and Carla Gardini and Kapital Entertainment’s Kaplan. Harpo’s Emily Rudolf Kapital co-leader produces. Jessie Abbott is regulating for Kapital.

Cerar read Wilkerson’s novel, which will be published in 2022, as she was finalizing a general negotiation with Kapital, the creation organization behind the forthcoming ABC Emmett Till restricted series Women of the Movement, which Cerar made, leader produces and showruns.

Kapital pursued the rights to the book for Cerar to form into a series as her first venture under the arrangement. Simultaneously, Harpo likewise was seeking after the book. Cerar, who had a current relationship with Harpo’s Gardini and Rudolf from fostering a venture there, assisted kick with offing discussions that brought about the two organizations joining to produce together.

The drama drew different offers and enormous responsibilities from decorations, with Cerar selecting to go to Hulu due to her extraordinary experience working with Dana Walden, Chairman of Entertainment at Walt Disney Television, and Craig Erwich, President of ABC Entertainment and Hulu Originals, on ABC’s Women of the Movement, scheduled to debut in middle of the season. Walden, who has an immense portfolio, just as Erwich, supervise original programming for both Hulu and ABC.

The pickup of Black Cake brings Kapital’s number of live series to 10, remembering three at Disney as Black Cake for Hulu joins drama A Million Little Things, whose fourth season debuts this evening on ABC, and Women of the Movement, which Kaplan produces with Will Smith and Jay-Z. The arrangement for Black Cake was haggled by Kapital’s Sandra Ortiz.

Cerar’s credits include Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, partaking in the series’ Outstanding Drama Series Emmy selection and Drama Series WGA Award assignment. She likewise chipped away at Netflix’s well known unique series 13 Reasons Why, Freeform’s The Fosters and Fox’s Shots Fired. On the component side, her unique screenplay Conversion is being developed at K Period Media. Cerar is repped by ICM Partners, Heroes and Villains Entertainment, and lawyer Kim Stenton at Myman Greenspan. For Kapital, the arrangement was facilitated by Sandra Ortiz.

Dark Cake is the primary novel for Wilkerson, an American writer and former journalist who has lived in the Caribbean and is situated in Italy. Her arrangement was handled by ICM Partners in the interest of the Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV and Film Agency.