Laurence Fishburne To Reprise Walter Mosley’s Socrates Fortlow Novels

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Project to revisit character brought to HBO in 1998 TV film 'Always Outnumbered'

Fifteen years after Laurence Fishburne starred as Walter Mosley‘s Socrates Fortlow in
the HBO movie Always Outnumbered written by Mosley and directed by Michael Apted, the actor-producer is revisiting the character. Fishburne is joining forces with HBO to bring back to life character Socrates Fortlow from the 1998 pic “Always Outnumbered” — this time, as a TV series. The pay cable network is developing The Right Mistake, a drama series from Fishburne’s Cinema Gypsy Prods and Fox Television Studios. 
Fishburne will also take a behind-the-scenes role as executive producer.
It is based on the series of novels by Mosley featuring Fortlow: an ex-convict who seeks redemption — while battling inner demons and external forces — after serving 27 years in prison. 
The books include Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, Walkin’ The Dog and The Right Mistake. Mosley and Patrick Charles are co-writing the series adaptation, with Fishburne. 
He is executive producing with Cinema Gypsy’s Helen Sugland and Tom Russo, Mosley and his partner, Diane Houslin. Charles is co-executive producing. The Right Mistake stems from the Cinema Gypsy’s first-look cable deal with FtvS. 
On the broadcast side, Cinema Gypsy has Black-ish, a single-camera comedy starring Anthony Anderson and written by Kenya Barris in development at ABC. The Matrix and CSI alum Fishburne, repped by Paradigm, Landmark Artist Management and Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein & Lezcano, also has a major recurring role on NBC’s Hannibal.  Last year, Mosley teamed up with TV series and documentary producer Diane Houslin to launch a new production company, B.O.B. Filmhouse (Best of Brooklyn Filmhouse), with the goal being to play an "active role" in the adaptation of his novels into films and TV series). 
He said "I'm looking to make television and shows and movies — my kind. I'm very happy with the movies that have been done [of his work]. I'm not happy with the regularity; I'd like to do more."

Here's a scene from Always Outnumbered - Fishburne at his best

The 1998 HBO film co-starred, along with Fishburne, Natalie Cole, Cicely Tyson, Bill Cobbs, Isaiah Washington, Bill Nunn, and others.
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA

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