Finding Forrester

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NBC is finding its new TV series will be Forrester. As in Finding Forrester.

A series adaptation of the 2000 film, which starred Rob Brown and the late Sean Connery, is now in the works with NBA star Stephen Curry attached as an executive producer through his Unanimous Media banner, EW has learned.

The movie, directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Mike Rich, told of a young Black writing prodigy, Jamal Wallace (Brown), who moves from public school to an elite private school. He befriends and becomes a mentee to William Forrester (Connery), an author who wrote a critically adored, best-selling novel once upon a time but has since disappeared from the public spotlight. (It was a lot of Connery screaming at Wallace to "type the damn keys!" on the typewriter.)

The new imagining of the story comes from writers and executive producers T.J. Brady and Rasheed Newson, who recently sold the script to NBC. The series will follow the bond between two gifted Black writers. One is a homeless 16-year-old orphan who leverages his basketball skills to hustle his way into an ultra-competitive elite boarding school, and the other is a reclusive lesbian author whose career was ruined by a public scandal.

Tim Story and Sharla Sumpter Bridgett will direct episodes. They also join the executive producer roster with Brady, Newsom, Curry, and Peyton. Sony Pictures Television is the studio.

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Author:Nick Romano - Source: EW