He’s co-executive producing alongside Darren Aronofsky ( Black Swan) and Ari Handel ( Black Swan) of Protozoa Pictures, Joe Weisberg ( The Americans), Joel Fields ( The Patient), Courtney Lee-Mitchell, and Jules Jackson. Kindred is adapted by playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins ( Everybody), who serves as the writer and showrunner of the series. The rest of the cast features Sheria Irving ( The Good Wife) as Olivia, a free Black woman in the 19th century, Gayle Rankin ( GLOW) as Rufus’s mother, Margaret Weylin, and Austin Smith ( Hamilton) as Luke, an enslaved foreman on the Weylin farm.

David Alexander Kaplan ( Stranger Things) co-stars as Dana’s young ancestor, Rufus Weylin, who is the catalyst for the entire story as he pulls Dana into his world.Īctor Ryan Kwanten ( True Blood) is playing Rufus’s cruel father, Thomas Weylin, owner and master of the tobacco farm Dana travels back to. Witnessing his wife’s strange nightmares and sleepwalking, he witnesses her sudden disappearance and must grapple with what to do. Micah Stock( Escape at Dannemora) co-stars as Dana’s husband, Kevin Franklin. A graduate of Julliard, Kindred marks Johnson's first starring role after having a supporting role in the Apple TV+ original, WeCrashed. Jacobs-Jenkins will serve as showrunner on the series and executive produces with Courtney Lee-Mitchell ( The Reluctant Fundamentalist), who holds the rights to the novel Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel of Protozoa Pictures The Americans EPs Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields Ernestine Walker and Merrilee Heifetz.Mallori Johnson stars as Dana Franklin. An interracial romance threads through her past and present, and the clock is ticking as she struggles to confront the secrets she never knew ran through her blood. Before she can get settled into her new home, however, she finds herself being violently pulled back and forth in time to a 19th century plantation with which she and her family are most surprisingly and intimately linked.

Kindred centers on Dana (Johnson), an aspiring writer who has uprooted her life of familial obligation and moved to Los Angeles to claim a future that for once feels all her own.

“The pilot directed by Janicza Bravo is brilliant, and we can’t wait to resume production with this incredibly talented and dedicated cast.” “Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has done a phenomenal job of adapting Kindred for FX and honoring the legacy and timeless value of Octavia Butler’s groundbreaking novel,” said Nick Grad, president original programming at FX.

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