12/14/2023 0 Comments Will packer imdb![]() “It felt this was the appropriate time to make sure that audiences and the creative community knew that there was a project that preexisted and we are pretty far down the road with it,” Packer told Deadline.īlack America, which Packer said is in “very, very active development” with McGruder “off and writing,” originated at Amazon Studios. It was HBO’s announcement of Confederate this month that prompted the Black America team to reveal the project’s premise. ![]() Inexorably tied together, the fate of two nations, indivisible, hangs in the balance. and unprecedented growth, an ascendant New Colonia joins the ranks of major industrialized nations on the world stage as America slides into rapid decline. Today, after two decades of peace with the U.S. The past 150 years have been witness to military incursions, assassinations, regime change, coups, etc. The sovereign nation they formed, New Colonia, has had a tumultuous and sometimes violent relationship with its looming “Big Neighbor,” both ally and foe, the United States. It envisions an alternate history where newly freed African Americans have secured the Southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama post-Reconstruction as reparations for slavery, and with that land, the freedom to shape their own destiny. Another alternate history drama series, which has been in the works at Amazon for over a year, also paints a reality where southern states have left the Union but takes a very different approach. Titled Black America, the drama hails from top feature producer Will Packer ( Ride Along, Think Like A Man franchises, Straight Outta Compton) and Peabody-winning The Boondocks creator and Black Jesus co-creator Aaron McGruder.
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