Yaa Gyasi received rave reviews for her second novel Transcendent Kingdom, and its TV adaptation is on the way. Yvonne Orji joined forces with Sony Pictures Television to develop and produce the adaptation of this acclaimed book under her first-look deal with the studio.
Transcendent Kingdom centers on Gifty, a neuroscientist in training trying to make sense of the suffering she’s seen all around her. She’s trying to reconcile her present-day life and her childhood as a first-generation Ghanaian in rural Alabama while turning to hard sciences in an attempt to unlock the mystery of her family’s loss.
This project will be developed under Orji’s first-look deal with Sony, and the Insecure star said she was excited to partner up with this studio when she signed it a year ago.
“From the first meeting with Katherine Pope and the rest of her amazing executive team, I knew this was the right home for me. They got my vision immediately and were genuinely enthusiastic about the stories I wanted to tell that bridge the diaspora,” said Orji in a statement.
Orji rose to prominence with her Emmy-nominated role in HBO’s Insecure. She most recently starred in Vacation Friends 2 and voiced the animated series Velma and My Dad the Bounty Hunter.
