Filmmaker Ava DuVernay and Netflix are joining forces yet again, this time on a limited series concerning the real-life Central Park Five case. DuVernay first collaborated with the streaming giant on their Oscar-nominated documentary 13th – a feature that, like her new limited series, deals with the U.S. criminal justice system. The Selma director is also attached to helm an original Netflix buddy movie starring Rihanna and Lupita Nyong’o (a project that famously started out as a Twitter joke-gone viral).
For those unfamiliar: the Central Park Five jogging case began in 1989, when five black teenagers from Harlem (Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and ...
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