Viola Davis to star as Harriet Tubman in untitled HBO project

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Actress Viola Davis will portray Harriet Tubman in an upcoming HBO movie about the former slave and abolitionist heroine. HBO stated on Monday that the project is based on the biography “Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman,” by historian Kate Clifford Larson. Tubman was born into slavery in Madison, Maryland, escaped in 1849 and subsequently made about thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved family and friends, using the Underground Railroad. An exact premiere date for the untitled film and other cast members were not announced. The Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses for escaped slaves, is the subject of other recently announced television projects. They include a Stevie Wonder-produced miniseries for NBC entitled “Freedom Run,” and a WGN America drama, “Underground,” starring Christopher Meloni and Jurnee Smollett-Bell. Kirk Ellis, who wrote HBO’s John Adams miniseries, penned the script; Doug Ellin and his Halyard Park production company will executive-produce the film alongside Amblin TV, Cliff Dorfman, 49-year-old Davis and her husband, Julius Tennon.

 

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