BARRY JENKINS
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Director Jenkins, whose drama Moonlight won best picture, is writing a limited-series adaptation of National Book Award winner Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad. He’ll direct the TV project about two slaves seeking freedom from their Georgia plantation. He’s also writing a film script for a coming-of-age drama based on the life of Olympic boxing champ Claressa “T-Rex” Shields.