HBO is adapting Brown Girls, another hit web series, for television
June 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Brown Girls, the critically acclaimed OpenTV web series that debuted on Elle’s website in February, is headed to HBO.
Screenwriter Fatimah Asghar and director Samantha Bailey discussed the deal in an interview with Elle this morning, emphasizing the “grassroots” origins of the project — group brainstorming on Facebook and friends volunteering to come down to the set to do work for free. The series, set in Chicago, will be translated to HBO with this same DIY spirit, Asghar says: ”It’s a city that is very mercurial, resourceful, and sly in a way that I love. I want to carry some of that over to television. We don’t want a show that is flashy and smooth. We want a show that is gritty. That has this kind of realness to it.”
Asghar is best…
