Sir Richard Branson, Jason Felts and Justin Berfield’s Virgin Produced, Emmy Award & Golden Globe Award nominated executive producers Joshua D. Maurer and Alixandre Witlin’s City Entertainment (Georgia O’Keeffe, And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself) have partnered with Johnny Depp and Christi Dembrowski’s Infinitum Nihil to produce a new drama series inspired by the award winning documentary feature Muscle Shoals. Greg Camalier, who directed and produced the documentary, will also produce the television adaption. Virgin Produced Executive Vice President of Production Rene Rigal brought the project into the company and will be overseeing with Infinitum Nihil’s Bobby DeLeon.
The series will explore the rich and vast milieu of the tumultuous and often poetically tragic segregated south through its colorful characters, rich cultural and political history and southern gothic settings, which became a unique melting pot of diverse musical & cultural traditions. Weaving a Faulkneresque tale through the stories of Muscle Shoals and the magical and mythical south, the filmmakers will get behind the music to explore the extraordinary stories that birthed this iconic sound.
