Barry Jenkins Lands First-Look TV Deal at Amazon!

Barry Jenkins strikes a pose with KiKi Layne ahead of her Discovery Award presentation during the 2018 SCAD Savannah Film Festival on Thursday (November 1) in Savannah, Ga.

KiKi serves as the lead in the 38-year-old Oscar-winning director’s upcoming film If Beale Street Could Talk, his first since the release of Moonlight.

It has just been announced that Barry is expanding his relationship with Amazon Studios, signing a first-look deal via his Pastel banner to develop television series for premiere on Amazon Prime Video, according to Variety.

Barry is slated to direct all eleven episodes of limited series The Underground Railroad, which received a script-to-series commitment from Amazon Studios in June.