Regina King and Freddie Highmore are producing a dark comedy drama series for Starz called THE COMEDOWN

Starz has announced a new comedy series project titled The downhill, which is sure to entertain the audience. It is based on Rafael Frumkin’s book of the same name and is brought to life by the producers Queen King AND Freddie Highmoretogether with TriStar Television, a division of Sony Pictures TV, where THE Good doctor‘s Highmore has a global deal. There is a lot of excitement around this project.

The downhillwritten by talent Gretchen Enders (Wanda Vision), is described as a “darkly comic, multigenerational drama that explores the lines of race, class, religion and time, through the story of two very different Cleveland families – one black, one white – whose lives intertwine in a fateful night when a drug deal goes dramatically wrong and a mysterious yellow briefcase goes missing.

Highmore and Claire Londy are executive producers through Alfresco Pictures, and are joined by Enders, King, who is producing through Royal Ties. Enders, who was most recently a Netflix/Shondaland co-executive producer Sun Scoutshe has also worked on projects such as Queen America for Facebook, Grace and Frankie for Netflix and Wanda Vision for Disney+.

Here is the description of the book:

A dazzling epic that follows two very different families in Cleveland through the generations, starting with their patriarchs, who become irrevocably entwined on one fateful night

A ferocious dark comedy, Rebekah Frumkin’s The Comedown is a romp across America, from the Kent State shootings to protest marches in Chicago to the Florida Everglades, that explores the lines of race, class, religion, and time.

Street smart drug dealer Reggie Marshall never loved drug addict Leland Bloom-Mittwoch, which doesn’t stop Leland from looking at Reggie with puppy-dog devotion. But when a drug deal goes dramatically, tragically wrong and a suitcase (which may or may not hold a quarter of a million dollars) goes missing, the two men and their families become hopelessly entangled. It’s a mistake that sets in motion a series of events that are strange, captivating, suspenseful, and ultimately inevitable.

Both incendiary and earnest, The Comedown steadfastly catalogs the tangled mess characters make with their lives, never losing sight of the beauty and power of every family member’s ability to love, whether for money, drugs or each other. ‘other.

Source: Deadline