After the network three emmy nominations for Unsafe Yesterday, today there is even more good news for Issa Rae fans. Deadline reports that Rae is partnering with Jordan Peele to produce Sink, a new genre movie based on a story by Leyna Krow. The project sparked a bidding war, and Universal finally secured the rights to the film, which will be within five years. Deal with Peele’s monkey banner. Krow’s history, originally published in literary mag Moss, focuses on a family moving into their dream home, which has a giant sink in the backyard. It turns out that the sump has the ability to fix things that are broken and damaged, and unsurprisingly, it isn’t long before someone wonders if it can fix people, too. Sink he is said to use elements of science fiction and psychological horror to comment on female identity and social gender expectations.
Peele will produce Sink through Monkeypaw with collaborator Win Rosenfeld, along with Rae, Montrel McKay and Sara Rastogi to Issa Rae Productions. Krow will executive produce with Alex Davis-Lawrence of Moss. In addition to producing, Rae could star in Sink, who has not yet hired a director, although it seems likely that Rae and Peele will be looking for a director to tackle this exciting project.
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