First Ladies is going to have a legend playing a legend! The Showtime series will feature Viola Davis as First Lady Michelle Obama.
How to Get Away with Murder may be ending with a sixth and final season, but we won’t have to wait too long before having Viola Davis grace our tv screens once more.
Only this time, her character will be based on real-life badass and American role model, Michelle Obama.
Deadline reports that Showtime has put the one-hour White House drama First Ladies on fast-track development with a three-script commitment.
The series will explore American presidencies through the viewpoint of the first ladies.
In addition to starring as America’s favorite First Lady, Viola Davis will likewise act as a non-writing executive producer on the project alongside her partner Julius Tennon via their joint production company, JuVee Productions banner.
First Ladies, which will be set primarily in the White House’s East Wing, will focus on the many world-changing decisions that have historically been hidden from public view — meaning that it will center on the stories, lives and decisions of the complicated and complex First Ladies of the United States.
The anthology series will attempt to shed light on both the public, personal and political lives of the women beside — and sometimes behind — the free world’s most powerful position, the US president. The first season of First Ladies will focus on Viola Davis’ Michelle Obama as well as Eleanor Roosevelt and Betty Ford, who have yet to be cast.
First Ladies will be written by Aaron Cooley, who has long been a producer and development executive for director Joel Schumacher. He is best known for his novels Four Seats: A Thriller of the Supreme Court, a political conspiracy thriller that deals with the murder of four Supreme Court justices, and Shaken, Not Stirred.
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