{"id":56861,"date":"2018-08-28T02:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T02:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56861"},"modified":"2018-08-28T02:00:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T02:00:21","slug":"hawaiian-family-drama-from-viola-davis-lisa-takeuchi-cullen-set-at-abc-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56861","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiian Family Drama From Viola Davis, Lisa Takeuchi Cullen Set at ABC (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hawaiian Family Drama From Viola Davis, Lisa Takeuchi Cullen Set at ABC (Exclusive)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>
\n2018-08-22<\/p>\n

Rebecca Sun<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Former<\/a>
\nLisa Takeuchi Cullen<\/a> (Matt Dine; Courtesy of Plume)<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

ABC<\/a> is headed back to Hawaii<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The network is teaming with Viola Davis<\/a> and Julius Tennon’s<\/a> JuVee Productions to develop the hourlong drama ‘Ohana<\/em>. The potential series is based on Kiana Davenport’s<\/a> 1994 novel Shark Dialogues<\/em><\/a> and follows four hapa<\/a> women who reunite when their grandmother, a mystic known as a kahuna<\/a>, dies mysteriously and leaves them the family plantation.<\/p>\n

Former Time<\/em> staff writer and foreign correspondent Lisa Takeuchi Cullen<\/a> will pen the adaptation.<\/p>\n

“So many Hawaii-set stories have been told from the white point of view,” Cullen tells The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. “This is a story we’re passionate about telling from the point of view of native Hawaiians \u2014 Pacific Islanders, people of Asian descent and people of hapa heritage.”<\/p>\n

Each of the four protagonists is of a different mixed ethnicity \u2014 half-white, half-Japanese, half-Filipino and half-black \u2014 and their unexpected shared inheritance will force them to overcome years of jealousies, misunderstandings, resentments and secrets…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Time journalist Lisa Takeuchi Cullen will write ”Ohana,’ based on Kiana Davenport’s 1994 novel ‘Shark Dialogues.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,8,4405,20,25],"tags":[17906,17910,911,10807,15761,28967,28960,28965,28966,15760],"class_list":{"0":"post-56861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-articles","7":"category-arts","8":"category-asia","9":"category-media-archive","10":"category-oceania","11":"category-usa","12":"category-women","13":"tag-abc","14":"tag-american-broadcasting-company","15":"tag-hawaii","17":"tag-hollywood-reporter","18":"tag-juvee-productions","19":"tag-kiana-davenport","20":"tag-lisa-takeuchi-cullen","21":"tag-rebecca-sun","22":"tag-the-hollywood-reporter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56862,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56861\/revisions\/56862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}