Boots Riley Announces Jharrel Jerome-Starring TV Series 'I'm a Virgo'
“About a 13-ft tall Black man who lives in Oakland.”
Boots Riley is following up his cult hit Sorry to Bother You (2018) with a new project titled I’m a Virgo. The TV series will see Jharrel Jerome (Moonlight, When They See Us) play the lead character, whom Riley describes as a “13-ft tall Black man who lives in Oakland.” The multi-hyphenate wrote that the show will “be dark, absurd, hilarious, and important,” noting that it’s being created alongside Michael Ellenburg’s production company Media Res. Where I’m a Virgo will end up has yet to be revealed, but given the involvement of Riley and Jerome (who notably starred as Korey Wise in Ava Duvernay‘s When They See Us), a bidding war between studios isn’t far-fetched.
I have a show
about a 13-ft tall Black man who lives in Oakland.It’s called I’m A Virgo.
Jharrel Jerome is playing the lead.
I’m doing this w Michael Ellenberg’s Media Res. We haven’t decided on the network/streamer.
It’ll be dark, absurd, hilarious, and important. pic.twitter.com/pzOGDxMaaO
— Boots Riley (@BootsRiley) June 22, 2020
Last week, Boots Riley and Noname sat down to discuss revolutions, radical approaches to art, and the Black Lives Matter movement for Haymarket Books’ “This is an Uprising!” event.
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