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Spanning six episodes, the drama will focus on Kaepernick’s formative high school experience, “lending meaningful insight into the acts and experiences that led him to become the activist he is today,” per the official description. The project will follow Kaepernick’s upbringing as a Black child growing up with a white adopted family, chronicling his journey to becoming a great quarterback while defining his identity.

Kaepernick will executive-produce and narrate the series, while Ava DuVernay and Michael Starrbury — who previously collaborated on Netflix’s When They See Us — are also on board as EPs.

“Too often we see race and Black stories portrayed through a white lens,” Kaepernick said in a statement. “We seek to give new perspective to the differing realities that Black people face. We explore the racial conflicts I faced as an adopted Black man in a white community, during my high school years. It’s an honor to bring these stories to life in collaboration with Ava for the world to see.”

Added DuVernay, “With his act of protest, Colin Kaepernick ignited a national conversation about race and justice with far-reaching consequences for football, culture and for him, personally. Colin’s story has much to say about identity, sports and the enduring spirit of protest and resilience. I couldn’t be happier than to tell this story with the team at Netflix.”

A former quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, Kaepernick made headlines in 2016 when he chose to kneel during the national anthem at NFL games, as a form of protest against systemic racism and police brutality. He left the 49ers after that football season concluded and remains a free agent.

EXCLUSIVE: David Farr, the British writer behind The Night Manager and Hanna, is developing an adaptation of John Wyndham’s sci-fi novel The Midwich Cuckoos for Comcast-owned European broadcaster Sky.

Deadline can reveal that Farr is working to turn the novel into an eight-part series after it was the inspiration for two movies last century, both of which were titled Village Of The Damned.

The TV remake is housed at ITV Studios-backed Route 24, which is run by Arlington Road producer Marc Samuelson, and Snowed-In Productions, the sister company of Bronte Film and Television, which produces J.K Rowling dramas including The Casual Vacancy and Strike.

Wyndham’s 1957 story centers on the sleepy English village of Midwich, where a strange sequence of events culminates in the community’s women falling pregnant with alien children with glowing eyes and otherworldly powers. It ranks alongside The Day Of The Triffids as being one of Wyndham’s most iconic works.

The Midwich Cuckoos was adapted twice for the cinema: the first time in 1960 by Wolf Rilla for MGM Studios, and then again by Halloween director John Carpenter in 1995. The latter was set in North Carolina, rather than England, and starred Christopher Reeve and Kirstie Alley.

Agent Coulson wrote: »

I haven't watched it but isn't Netflix's Russian Doll a Groundhog Day idea turned into a series.

Skerries wrote: »

some people reckoned that he was stuck there for 10k years but Harold Ramis said more like 30-40 years total