{"id":14632,"date":"2021-03-17T09:37:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T13:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/showtime-orders-antoine-fuquas-shaka-king-zulu-nation\/"},"modified":"2021-03-17T09:37:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T13:37:41","slug":"showtime-orders-antoine-fuquas-shaka-king-of-the-zulu-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/showtime-orders-antoine-fuquas-shaka-king-of-the-zulu-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Showtime Orders Antoine Fuqua&#8217;s Shaka: King of the Zulu Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Showtime has placed a series order for <em>Shaka: King of the Zulu Nation<\/em>, executive produced and directed by Antoine Fuqua (<em>Training Day<\/em>), and a pilot order for the elevated genre series <em>Let the Right One In<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Shaka: King of the Zulu Nation<\/em> is an epic drama centered on one man\u2019s personal journey from stigmatized childhood to warrior king. Rooted in actual events, it tells the story of the Zulu Empire chief Shaka and his unlikely rise to power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project offers a gateway to our past that is so critical to our global history and yet so often marginalized,\u201d said Fuqua. \u201cThrough <em>Shaka: King of the Zulu Nation<\/em>, we hope to bring this saga to life, all the tears, sweat and blood, all the joy and sorrow, all the intimacy and intensity and humanity. In short, we\u2019re going to rock the world with this one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the original hit Swedish novel and film, <em>Let the Right One In<\/em> centers on a father and his 12-year-old daughter whose lives were changed forever ten years earlier when she was turned into a vampire. Locked in at age 12, perhaps forever, Eleanor lives a closed-in life, able to go out only at night, while her father does his best to provide her with the minimal amount of human blood she needs to stay alive.<\/p>\n<p>Oscar nominee Demi\u00e1n Bichir (<em>A Better Life<\/em>) stars. Award-winning playwright, writer and producer Andrew Hinderaker (<em>Away<\/em>, <em>Penny Dreadful<\/em>) will serve as showrunner and executive produce along with Seith Mann (<em>Homeland<\/em>, <em>#FreeRayShawn<\/em>, <em>Blindspotting<\/em>), who will also direct the pilot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe series is both a love letter to the original film and a story entirely our own,\u201d said Hinderaker. \u201cAnd casting a true artist like Demi\u00e1n epitomizes our bold aspiration to be one of the most terrifying shows on TV, and one of the most moving.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showtime has placed a series order for Shaka: King of the Zulu Nation, executive produced and directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), and a pilot order for the elevated genre series Let the Right One In.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":14633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-14632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-showtime","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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