"Selma" director Ava DuVernay will write and direct a five-episode limited series about the historic Central Park Five case for Netflix, the company announced Thursday.
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'Selma' director Ava DuVernay will make a Netflix limited series based on the Central Park Five case
Each episode will focus on one of the five teenagers, and the story will span from 1989 to 2014.
previously worked with Netflix on her critically acclaimed and Oscar-nominated 2016 documentary, "13th."
While this new project will be a scripted series, it will return to many of the same themes as "13th," which examined race and the US criminal justice system.
In 1989, five teenagers from Harlem — Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise — were wrongfully convicted of raping Trisha Meili in New York City's Central Park. In 2014, all five were exonerated and reached a settlement.
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Each episode of DuVernay's new series will focus on one of the five teenagers, and the story will span from 1989 to 2014. Netflix says that the series "e"
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