Actor Terence Howard and the entertainment company Radical Media have teamed to develop a TV drama based on the life of Ronald Farwell, an undercover LAPD detective who infiltrated the Black Panthers.
Variety reports that “Pigs and Panthers” will be set in 1960s and early 1970s Los Angeles, and will draw from the story of Farwell and his wife, an L.A. Sheriff’s deputy, as he soon finds himself on the wrong side of the Black Panther Party, the FBI and the LAPD itself!
Howard’s production company, A Huge Quality Film, is developing the project and will produce with Radical Media. Ron Hutchinson (”The Tuskegee Airmen”) is writing the pilot script.
Radical Media is also behind Sundance Channel’s “Iconoclasts,” AMC’s “Storymakers,” the documentary “The Fog of War”, and the pilot to “Mad Men”. The project is currently seeking a network home.
This sounds interesting. I'm looking forward to watching it–in spite of my feelings about Terence.
I am so excited about this. I hope there are references to real historical scenerios, snitches, and soldiers. War at Home by Brian Glick first exposed me to COINTELPRO…I pray that this shows exposes it to the TV generation!