LaDarrion Williams
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Playwright. TV writer. Screenwriter. #BloodattheRoot hits shelves May 7th, 2024 @penguinrandom repped by @petejknapp @stewarttalent
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3 yrs ago, I made it my mission to write a YA fantasy book with a Black boy lead. No police brutality& no racial trauma.
This is Malik Baron, a country boy from Helena, Alabama blessed with Hoodoo magic.
BLOOD AT THE ROOT. May 2024.
Pre-order now:
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Is lil Boosie gonna say something? What about the kids?
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I will never forgive the writers and filmmakers for not giving us a Hancock part II.
The mythology behind this story was so dope.
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A Black woman Queen in Georgia opened her own movie studio. She just acquired a fast station and grocery store to film at.
And she’s affordable. Y’all at C&C Movie film studio is doing theee MF thang. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
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The way she pissed off white America with this should be studied.
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Keith Lee to the Atlanta restaurant industry after saying “God is amazing”:
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Name two actors you’d like to see in a rom-com together.
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If y’all don’t understand “range” when it comes to acting. Why are you speaking?
Taraji’s acting range is expansive, but y’all wouldn’t know that outside of Cookie Lyon.
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I really wish we kept Juneteenth to ourselves.
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Because it was celebrating Black ancestry, African ancestry, and folks called it demonic and said “Bey needs to stop making civil rights music, we wanna dance.”
Anti-Black AF.
First time listening to The Gift in full…. Hole on.. why do y’all hate this album so much omg???
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Did y’all know this whole scene was improv? Unscripted?
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A lot of folks owe MoNique an apology. She’s been saying this.
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Esther Rolle literally fought for a Black father representation in Good Times. She risked everything, and when they killed John Amos off, she literally left the show—we can’t keep spitting in their faces like this.
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Y’all gon’ leave that Black man librarian alone.
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My thoughts exactly. But a lot of folks ain’t ready for this convo. ☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️
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You can’t connect to Black characters because you don’t believe Black people are human.
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Y’all out here comparing Abbott Elementary to Insecure?????
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Stephanie Meyer said, “Black vampires can’t exist in her world because the ‘venom’ eats up their melanin, making them pale white.”
And she has the nerve to call that the “beautification process.”
Chileeee
A TV series version of 'THE TWILIGHT SAGA’ is officially in the works.
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Ummmm where TF is he at and why is he not on our TV screens?
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That Naomie Harris is a whole chameleon and she deserves more lead roles.
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The same way folks don’t consider Princess Kida in Disney canon.
Tiana wasn’t the first, either. 🤷🏾♂️
The black community really rejected Wish 😭😭
I bet if I asked a random person most people wouldn't even know if there is more than one black Disney princess now
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It is time to write this script.
And get these two in a film together.
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Wrap up that Simone Biles and her husband convo asap. It’s Christmas. Go be with y’all’s families.
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Black family members: “Maybe you should send your plays and stuff to Tyler Perry.”
Me:
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🤷🏾♂️
Tell us your favorite Friends character without telling us your favorite Friends character
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I hope we get a backstory next season.
Also it’s kinda sad that Liza Colón-Zayas was left out the awards convo. Because mama be acting. Those little small, subtle moments in the cooking school and her at the Karaoke bar—that’s acting!
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Nobody:
Absolutely nobody:
Black families that knows you’re a writer: “Why don’t you send your stuff to Tyler Perry?
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Black horror don’t always have to be steeped in racism or racial trauma.
Like can we just fight some ghosts and demons and shit???
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I wish y’all have the same energy when it comes to white actors being cast as Ancient Egyptians
Annabeth is the daughter of the Greek goddess Athena.
Netflix casted her as black.
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You’re asking me, a Black writer, why I don’t want to center whiteness in my stories?
Here’s why:
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Content creators all over Tik Tok going crazy because they can’t “promote” movies.
“We have to make money and feed our familes.”
Ummmmm so writers and the actors don’t? BFFR.
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Let’s add him…
I know Jonathan Majors is the IT guy in Hollywood. Just reminding y’all Yahya Abdul Mateen been doing numbers, and Trevante Rhodes & Kelvin Harrison Jr are selecting quality roles and working to those Oscar nominations. These are the IT men for me.
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“Hold on, are you putting on MY shit?! Bitch! I will kill you!” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Well this aged well…
Viola deserved a Best Actress nomination.
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If you were a creative kid in a Black household and your parents supported you %100—that’s a whole other level of privilege.
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If the Emmy’s were fair to Black women comedic actresses:
These three Black women gave some of the best comedic acting and they were paid dust.
Wendy Raquel Robinson for Tasha Mack “The Game”
Tichina Arnold - Rochelle Everybody Hates Chris
Tracee Ellis Ross - Girlfriends
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No.
She fumbled it here. 🤷🏾♂️
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If you can hear this picture, we can be friends
If you can hear this picture, we can be friends
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I DO NOT WANT TO SEE ANGELA BASSETT DIE IN A FILM EVER AGAIN!
Angela Bassett as “the stepmom?” No… Angela Bassett as “the mom who stepped up?” Now that’s more like it.
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When I meet Beyonce, I’m gonna tell her how much Find Your Way Back healed me.
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If they can give Evan Peters an Emmy…
They might as well get Luke James’ EMMY Award ready.
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Tia Mowry and Corey Hardict getting a divorce!?!??!!!!!!???!
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Ray Campbell doesn’t get the respect he deserves. Because He was one of thee best Black fathers on TV. Caring. Loving. Attentive. No scandals.
Pay this man his MF flowers
Who is the greatest fictional dad of all time?
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Because at this point, it don’t make no damn sense.
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STARTING A THREAD FOR DIFFERENT BLACK INDIE FILMS THAT ARE DOING THE WORK!!!!!
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“Why aren’t Black directors and writers not writing the Black fantasy stuff?! We want niggas doing magic. We want Black Hogwarts.”
Us Black fantasy writers out here, fighting for our lives in these pitch meetings:
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Time traveling. Portals. Thriller vibes. And a Black cast?!!!
Ahh, the world is healing.
The trailer for Kourosh Ahari’s ‘PARALLEL’ starring Danielle Deadwyler, Aldis Hodge and Edwin Hodge has been released.
In theaters February 23.
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The way this show had us ALL in a chokehold during Quarantine should be studied.
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Y’all not talking about this show enough for me.
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We not talking enough about Taraji’s vocals! This woman been training for two years singing and she really held her own vocally to theee Fantasia?!!
#TheColorPurple
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I know there’s a lot of criticism about Donald Glover—but one thing you hear from yo and coming Black creatives is that he’s there, reaching out and helping.
He even read Ryan cooglers first drafts of Black Panther and gave him advice. I would be so interested to see how he…
Vince Staples says Donald Glover helped him while making ‘THE VINCE STAPLES SHOW’
“I just spoke a lot to Donald […] He helped me a lot.”
🔗:
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The entire kneegrow community right now after what Jay Z said:
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The biggest upset for Black and Brown artists is not always losing the Oscar it’s the face sometimes they don’t get the material to get them back most of the time.
Emma got Lala Land and Poor Things.
Cillian Murphy will get more scripts…
Christopher Nolan is gonna get another…
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You sat there and review bombed all the BIPOC books coming in 2024 because you just had to be racist, and now you lost your whole book deal….
The ancestors showing out tuhday.
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The main ones that cry “why is there Black trauma in everything” are the same ones that support Zeus network.
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“Well—I wanna see Black genre films and fantasy.”
Cool— did you know there’s a story about Black folks shapeshifting and a family who had the ability to fly?
Southern folklore is such a topic we don’t really talk about in films or TV—but hey, I definitely am.
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Imma need Hollywood to put some respect on Djimon Hounsou name. He should be leading films not having two scenes in random ass movies!
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Love Life Season 2 felt like healing.
You just had to be there.
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Seeing Black people getting a happily ever after in films will always make me:
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A play I wrote while living in my car chasing this writing dream is in the Hollywood reporter and getting a Broadway campaign.
I truly cannot believe my life.
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And this is why we need more $ when it comes to Black filmmaking. Mentorship is cool. But we need access.
Spirit Awards: Jeffrey Wright Says "Nobody Wanted to Finance" 'American Fiction' Initially
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NO FUCKING WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BLOOD AT THE ROOT is
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on Amazon!!!!!
#1
new release in teen & young adult fantasy on Amazon!!! 🤯
@ItsLaDarrion
did that y’all 🙌🏽
#amazonfinds
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#preorder
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Wait, so there’s a general consensus that Alicia Keys can’t sing? Since when?
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Djimon Hounsou deserves the world and I’m tired of Hollywood paying him dust. He should not be relegated to only small or very subservient roles.
I’ve always been a fan and would love and be honored to work with him one day.
Give this Black man his flowers!
Now that Brendan Fraser is back on top of the world, who is another actor you would like to see make another glorious comeback?
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@excydius
Be on the look out for my television series Blood at the Root a series based at a magical HBCU in the dirty South! A Black Harry Potter.
It’s hella Black, hella magical.
#BloodattheRoot
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A director of a Netflix movie stole 11 million dollars and he’s not in jail?
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I’m so glad Coleman is adding this nuance to the convo. Because it’s sooooo easy to throw away a character like Mister and just hate him. But he was a victim as well. And hurt people hurt people.
Colman Domingo discusses his performance in ‘THE COLOR PURPLE.’
Now in theaters.
(via
@Fandango
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“I would never read a script that’s written in Microsoft word.”
Bruh—not everybody can afford a $300 screenwriting program.
A lot of the screenwriting “rules” are pretentious AF.
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All imma say is…never be afraid of sharing your art, you never know who’s watching.
That’s all imma say. 👀
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I used to write my scripts while working Drive-thru at Taco Bell back in Alabama.
And tomorrow, 7 years later, I have first round of producer notes before we go out to pitch to networks and studios.
But. Gawd.
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Fawk this. I’m packing up and moving over seas. Because they’re obviously killing it over there with actually green lighting Black stories.
When a regular group of people in South London are gifted with superpowers, they find their new abilities have made them targets for a powerful entity.
Supacell, a new series created by Rapman, premieres this June.
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The entire kneegrow community right now with that poster:
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The shot that made me scream “COME ON CINEMATOGRAPHY!” In the middle of the theater.
My Gawd! Dan Laustsen and
@BlitzAmbassador
y’all are not human. Cause this is one of the most beautiful images I’ve ever seen.
#TheColorPurple
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That’s why I didn’t pay too much attention to the whole Barbie snub thing…
Like, Greta, as a director, will be fine. Margot will be fine. They’re going to get the scripts and the jobs and funding.
But look at how Ava had to struggle to get funding for Origin. And Academy Award…
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Seeing a Black man who fought for his idea and seeing the fruits of his labor always inspires me.
#Oscar
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As a playwright I’ve been rejected by every theater & playwriting competition I can think of. Now I have network execs requesting to read my plays. Moral of the story: keep writing that script. It may seem like no one wants it. But it may be the thing to usher u into your dreams.
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I think in a world of Michael B. Jordan, Johnathan Majors and Yayas…I like to see more Big and Tall Black male representation too.
Not for comedic relief. But fully realized without having the “super hero body”.
Love to see Brian Tyree as a romantic lead.
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Speaking of Black voices, I’m a filmmaker, playwright who is writing about the Black experience in the south. I have short films avail on YouTube ranging from hurricane Katrina-to a magical HBCU to young Black love. Check them out:
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The timeline all day:
Debating about Amanda Seales
Zodiac sign fights
Raymonte and Cardi B now arguing
And that white TikToker going viral for not liking Cowboy Carter….
Audiobooks is not reading debate
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No Black directors winning an Oscar in 96 years?!!!! Like that’s insane.
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After three long years, I’m officially holding my book in my hands!
What a surreal moment!
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“We wanted a magical HBCU Hogwarts story. Why is nobody writing that?”
Me after promoting my book that’s literally about a magical HBCU and Black people reclaiming their magical and ancestral connection:
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NOW WHY CAN’T WE GET A FEATURE FILM LIKE THIS?
Yasuke was the world’s first Black samurai.
When a 6-foot-tall African slave landed in Japan, he stuck out like a sore thumb. People lost all modesty and nearly caused a stampede trying to get a closer look. Such a sight was so foreign in Kyoto.
A THREAD!
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