Akiva Goldsman has proven over the course of his career that he can balance blockbuster filmmaking with earnest historical retellings; he's the man who scripted I, Robot and The Da Vinci Code, and also won an Academy Award for A Beautiful Mind. With WGN America's new slavery drama Underground, Goldsman is trying to blend the two sides of his filmography together, and for intensely personal reasons.
Underground is set in the pre-Civil War South and follows a group of slaves who seek to escape from their life of servitude, and their allies who work to help their 600 mile journey to the North. When Goldsman read the screenplay from showrunners Misha Green and Joe Pokaski, he found the series "an opportunity to try to be entertaining about something that's personal," as it was for him.
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Underground is set in the pre-Civil War South and follows a group of slaves who seek to escape from their life of servitude, and their allies who work to help their 600 mile journey to the North. When Goldsman read the screenplay from showrunners Misha Green and Joe Pokaski, he found the series "an opportunity to try to be entertaining about something that's personal," as it was for him.
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