HBO mainstay Amy Aniobi has one more venture within the works on the cabler. The “Insecure” writer-producer-director, “Two Dope Queens” showrunner, and up to date “Rap Sh!t” director has acquired the rights to “The Nigerwife,” the upcoming novel from Vanessa Walters, with plans to develop it as a collection at HBO. Deadline broke the information.
The difference hails from Aniobi’s total take care of HBO/HBO Max, and he or she is govt producing with Walters. Aanch Khaneja, Head of Movie & TV at Aniobi’s SuperSpecial manufacturing firm, will co-exec produce.
Set for publication subsequent June, “The Nigerwife” “tells the story of Nicole Oruwari, who has the proper life: a good-looking husband, a palatial home within the coronary heart of glittering Lagos, Nigeria, and a glamorous, highly-exclusive group of mates,” Deadline synopsizes. “A UK ex-pat with two younger youngsters, Nicole left every thing behind to change into a ‘Nigerwife’ – the overseas bride of a Nigerian man – buying and selling gloomy London, alongside along with her overreaching household, for sunny, moneyed Lagos.”
The supply continues, “However when Nicole disappears with no hint from a ship within the prosperous Ikoyi harbor, the cracks in her so-called good life begin to present. When Nicole initiatives a picture of easy wealth and happiness, a really completely different image quickly begins to emerge – one in every of melancholy, isolation, and even violence. Who was the true Nicole? And the place did she go?”
Walters has beforehand written YA novels “Impolite Women” and “Finest Issues in Life”; poetry, fiction, and non-fiction assortment “Smoke Othello”; and performs together with “Michael X” and “Caribbean Kitchen.” She can be a inventive writing tutor and literary activist.
Aniobi most just lately helmed the “Rap Sh!t” episode “One thing for the Gram.” She is creating two options below her total deal, and bought HBO “Take pleasure in Your Meal,” a pitch impressed by the racist controversies within the meals media world that made headlines throughout summer season 2020. “Silicon Valley” and internet collection “Lisa and Amy Are Black,” “The Slutty Years,” and “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Lady” are amongst her different credit.
Supply: Women And Hollywood
