John Legend is to produce TV and film. The
Grammy-winning propelled his Get Lifted Film Company in 2011, and the business
is performing remarkably well, is he to quit singing for movies? Well no is the
answer
"I’m not giving up my day job, I’m finishing
an album now; I’ll tour on it and do all the things I’ve always done. But I
have a great (production) team, and all of us have a mandate to try to tell
great stories and make the world a more interesting place by getting those
stories out there. So while I’m on the road, I’ll be reading scripts." he
tells Variety. "
Some of the screenplays he'll be reading on the
road in the near future are for episodes of Get Lifted's current television
project Underground. The old drama focuses on America's Underground Railroad, a
network of safe houses and secret routes created to help African-Americans
escape bondage before slavery was banned at the conclusion of the United States
Civil War in 1865.
"I was an English major in college who
concentrated in African-American literature and culture, So I read quite a few
slave narratives and stories of escape, and I grew up in Ohio, which was a
common stop on the Underground Railroad. ." he added.
"These stories are very resonant, and I
thought it made perfect television, because first of all, it’s a subject that
hasn’t really been covered in this type of format - or really on TV or film in
any significant way. And if you just look at the core of what the show is
about, it’s about courage; it’s essentially a prison break, a dangerous journey
across hundreds of miles where around any corner there’s death awaiting, or
capture. And I felt like it would make for really engaging television." he
concluded.
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