WEEK IN WOMEN: Viola Davis Develops FAST COLOR for Amazon Series – Brandy McDonnell reports

August 26, 2019August 28, 2019 Brandy McDonnell 0 Comments amazon, fast color, juvee productions, streaming, the week in women, twiw, viola davis

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Amazon Studios is developing Fast Color, a series based on the 2018 sci-fi film about three generations of black women with superhuman abilities.

The streaming adaptation comes from Oscar winner Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions, along with the film’s writers, Julia Hart and Jordan Horowitz and their Original Headquarters, along with Mickey Liddell’s LD Entertainment.

Released by Lionsgate/Code Black in April, the film earned praise for putting three black women – Ruth (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), her mom Bo (Lorraine Toussaint) and Ruth’s daughter Lila (Saniyya Sidney) – at the center of an original science fiction narrative. Continue reading on THE WEEK IN WOMEN

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Brandy McDonnell

Brandy McDonnell is the longtime features writer covering arts and entertainment for The Oklahoman and Oklahoman.com, part of the USA Today Network. In 2025, she garnered a Rabkin Prize, which recognizes the nation’s top visual arts writers. An approved critic for RottenTomatoes.com, she is a member of the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle and of the Alliance of Wome\n Film Journalists, for which she writes The Week in Women news blog.