{"id":22360,"date":"2022-02-03T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/worldscreen.com\/"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:15:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:15:02","slug":"marley-and-the-family-band-adaptation-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/marley-and-the-family-band-adaptation-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Marley and the Family Band Adaptation in the Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lion Forge Animation (<em>Hair Love<\/em>), Polygram Entertainment and Tuff Gong Collective are set to adapt the picture book <em>Marley and the Family Band<\/em> for the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Bob Marley&#8217;s daughter Cedella Marley,\u00a0<em>Marley and the Family Band\u00a0<\/em>celebrates music, love and family, following a young girl who moves to a new country. The book was inspired by Cedella&#8217;s own childhood and famous father.<\/p>\n<p>The animated series adaptation will be directed by Lion Forge Animation Executive Creative Director Saxton Moore. Lion Forge&#8217;s David Steward II, founder and CEO, and Jimmy Thomas are executive producing.<\/p>\n<p>The series is being developed and produced by Lion Forge, Universal Music Group&#8217;s (UMG) Polygram Entertainment and the joint venture between Cedella and UMG, Tuff Gong Collective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTuff Gong Collective was formed to be a creative platform to introduce my father\u2019s art and music to new generations, and we\u2019re thrilled to work with Lion Forge and Polygram to bring <em>Marley and the Family Band<\/em> to life through this new animation series,\u201d said Cedella. \u201cThis series is meant to reach and inspire creativity and community, and I couldn\u2019t be more excited to share it with the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steward said, \u201cIt&#8217;s a sincere pleasure to work with Cedella and the Polygram team to build off such beautiful storytelling and reimagine as an animated series. Cedella\u2019s stories speak to everything we strive to bring to life in our productions, and the iconic stature of the Marley name and legacy carries weight that translates into global reach.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lion Forge Animation (Hair Love), Polygram Entertainment and Tuff Gong Collective are set to adapt the picture book Marley and the Family Band for the screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":22361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[5601,6364,6365],"class_list":["post-22360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-lion-forge-animation","tag-polygram-entertainment","tag-tuff-gong-collective","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Marley and the Family Band Adaptation in the Works - TVKIDS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/marley-and-the-family-band-adaptation-in-the-works\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Marley and the Family Band Adaptation in the Works - TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lion Forge Animation (Hair Love), Polygram Entertainment and Tuff Gong Collective are set to adapt the picture book Marley and the Family Band for the screen.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/marley-and-the-family-band-adaptation-in-the-works\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-03T14:00:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-02-03T14:15:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/07\/LionForge-MarleyandtheFamilyBand-0222.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"317\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/marley-and-the-family-band-adaptation-in-the-works\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/marley-and-the-family-band-adaptation-in-the-works\/\",\"name\":\"Marley and the Family Band Adaptation in the Works - TVKIDS\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-03T14:00:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-02-03T14:15:02+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/marley-and-the-family-band-adaptation-in-the-works\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/marley-and-the-family-band-adaptation-in-the-works\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/marley-and-the-family-band-adaptation-in-the-works\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Marley and the Family Band Adaptation in the Works\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\",\"name\":\"TVKIDS\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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