{"id":43547,"date":"2018-04-16T19:51:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T23:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=43547"},"modified":"2018-04-16T19:51:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T23:51:40","slug":"oscar-winner-john-ridley-to-adapt-american-way-comic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/16\/oscar-winner-john-ridley-to-adapt-american-way-comic\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Winner John Ridley To Adapt AMERICAN WAY Comic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/American-Way.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/American-Way-678x339.jpg\" alt=\"American Way\" width=\"678\" height=\"339\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/American-Way.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/American-Way-339x170.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Ridley has signed to write and direct an adaptation of his comic book mini-series <strong>The American Way: Those Above And Those Below<\/strong> for Blumhouse Productions.<\/p>\n<p>The six-issue series that will be the basis of the film is a sequel to Ridley\u2019s 2007 mini-series <em>The American Way<\/em>. Set in the 1960s, that series told the story of New American, the first African-American to join a team of government-sponsored superheroes, the Civil Defense Corps. The sequel series, picks up the story a decade later after the team has been rocked by numerous scandals and exposed as a propaganda stunt by the government. Despite its historical setting, there are many issues that parallel today\u2019s social concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Ridley, who won an Oscar for writing <strong>12 Years A Slave<\/strong>, co-created the series with artist George Jeanty. Although it was first published by DC Comics imprint Wildstorm, the creator contracts from that time gave Ridley the film rights to the material, which is why we are not seeing this being developed under the banner of DC Comics parent company Warner brothers.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the film is set up over at Blumhouse, a production shingle known far more for their prestigious output of horror films. However, we have been seeing Blumhouse stretching its wings a bit \u2014 They were the producers of last year\u2019s Oscar\u2014buzzed Get Out. Deadline reports that the film is being fast tracked by Blumhouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The 12 YEARS A SLAVE Oscar winner is bringing the comic book series he created to the big screen.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/16\/oscar-winner-john-ridley-to-adapt-american-way-comic\/\" title=\"Oscar Winner John Ridley To Adapt AMERICAN WAY Comic\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[4695,4699],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-john-ridley","9":"tag-the-american-way"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43547"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=43547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}