The college life of Sandra Bullock is about to get the series treatment. Amazon has snagged the rights to a show based on Bullock’s college experience that will be set in the world of music and dance. Bullock will executive produce the project along with Akiva Goldsman and John Legend.
The series is created and written by K.C. Perry and is loosely inspired by Bullock’s college years The show is described as a hilarious, boundary-crossing, and often soul-wrenching trek through the oppressive cultural norms of the deep south in the 1980s, where one darkly off-beat young woman defies expectations and sets out in search of love, community, and most importantly, an identity of her own.
The show will also be a fantastical, dance-filled journey, traversing the worlds of drag-culture, mental health, and the AIDS epidemic, all while following a group of young outcasts who band together and dare to be themselves, despite the very real danger they face in doing so. It’s a vivid, fun, gut-punch of a story about letting go of shame and living out loud… and some of it’s even true.
The idea for the series sprung from conversations between longtime friends Bullock and Goldsman who had worked together on the features A Time To Kill and Practical Magic. Bullock attended East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, where she received a BFA in Drama in 1987. While at ECU, she performed in multiple theater productions including Peter Pan and Three Sisters.
John Legend became involved when Goldsman enlisted his producing partners on WGN America’s Underground, Legend’s Get Lifted Film Co., to help develop the series and curate the show’s ambitious fusion of multiple genres of music from the period, including 80’s pop, timeless Southern gospel, and opera.
K.C. Perry was a writer on The CW’s The Originals and most recently wrote and executive produced the Constance pilot for TNT.
