Lagos-Set Drama ‘Victoria Island’ In The Works From Taiye Selasi, Nicholas Weinstock & Fremantle
EXCLUSIVE: Taiye Selasi, who wrote the book Ghana Must Go and was mentored by Toni Morrison, is developing a new, Lagos-set comedy drama for the global marketplace.
Selasi is writing Victoria Island and has teamed up with Severance and Escape At Dannemora exec producer Nicholas Weinstock, American Gods producer Fremantle and African producer Known Associates Entertainment on the project.
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The hour-long project follows the adventures of a Nigerian-American woman who returns to Lagos, newly married to an oil billionaire, and launches an event planning company with the help of her friends in the home of the world’s most spectacular events.
Selasi will write and exec produce the series through her production company Cocoa Content, which she founded in 2019 with media investor Jerôme Levy. She is known for her Ted Talk Don’t Ask Where I’m From, Ask Where I’m a Local.
Weinstock will exec produce through his Invention Studios shingle, which is behind feature film Thelma starring Parker Posey. He has a first-look deal at Fremantle, which is the studio and has also been behind scripted series such as Apple’s The Mosquito Coast.
Known Associates Entertainment, led by Tshepiso Chikapa Phiri, will also exec produce.
Selasi and Cocoa Content are repped by CAA and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC. Weinstock is repped by CAA and Stone, Genow, Smelkinson, Binder & Christopher, LLP.
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