Amazon greenlights The Underground Railroad limited series with Barry Jenkins directing all 11 episodes

Variety

The Oscar-winning Moonlight director says of adapting Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning 2016 novel about two slaves making a bid for freedom by following the Underground Railroad: “Working with Amazon and a wonderful group of screenwriters to develop Colson’s novel into a limited series has been an extremely rewarding experience. Translating his singular voice into a cohesive and equally singular visual language is a task I very much look forward to.” Reacting to the news, Whitehead tweeted: "It's true! And I hope @BarryJenkins follows my casting suggestion that Walton Goggins plays all the white people, male & female, Eddie Murphy-Klumps style..."