Peacock 'Nope'-Inspired Docuseries about Black Cowboys set at Peacock from Jordan Peele
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Jordan Peele‘ s Monkeypaw Productions is getting back on the documentary horse and is using his movie Nope as inspiration.
The Get Out filmmaker is producing a documentary series that dismantles the whitewashed mythology of the cowboy for Peacock.
Produced through his Monkeypaw Productions label, Peele is producing the untitled series with Universal Television Alternative Studio (UTAS) as part of his overall deal with Universal Studio Group.
The docuseries will rewrite a foundational piece of American history, unmasking the forces that erased the identity of the Black cowboy from frontier history and present.
Keith McQuirter, who directed MGM+’s By Whatever Means Necessary: The Godfather of Harlem, will serve as showrunner, director and exec producer.
Peele will exec produce alongside Monkeypaw’s President Win Rosenfeld, SVP, Development and Production Jamal Watson and SVP, Culture and Impact Keisha Senter as well as Liz Yale Marsh, who produced CNN’s Little Richard: I Am Everything and has an overall deal with UTAS, and Sacha Jenkins, exec producer of Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men.
The Get Out filmmaker is producing a documentary series that dismantles the whitewashed mythology of the cowboy for Peacock.
Produced through his Monkeypaw Productions label, Peele is producing the untitled series with Universal Television Alternative Studio (UTAS) as part of his overall deal with Universal Studio Group.
The docuseries will rewrite a foundational piece of American history, unmasking the forces that erased the identity of the Black cowboy from frontier history and present.
Keith McQuirter, who directed MGM+’s By Whatever Means Necessary: The Godfather of Harlem, will serve as showrunner, director and exec producer.
Peele will exec produce alongside Monkeypaw’s President Win Rosenfeld, SVP, Development and Production Jamal Watson and SVP, Culture and Impact Keisha Senter as well as Liz Yale Marsh, who produced CNN’s Little Richard: I Am Everything and has an overall deal with UTAS, and Sacha Jenkins, exec producer of Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men.
