Fan Casting Imitation of life (2025 adaptation)

In this version of the story, Annie Johnson and Bea Pullman are two college educated women from two very different backgrounds who came together when they were down and out. After starting a restaurant together, the two women become successful entrepreneurs selling their own homemade recipes from pancake mix to marinara sauce. Though their joint business is a hot success, there’s another issue they need to deal with….their growing daughters. Jessie coming into her own womanhood and poor Sarah Jane who has to live the life as a light skinned African-American woman who wants to be accepted as white and join society. Join these two generations as they face the hardships of race, gender, and class in the 1950s.