Stories by @uncleawesome

Hadestown

A screen adaptation of the Broadway hit musical Hadestown.

Hadestown (c.1998)

If Anaïs Mitchell's folk musical had instead begun as a movie musical in the late 90s---primarily because I kept coming back to Andráe Crouch as Yertle the Turtle when I thought of Hades--where Orpheus and Eurydice came of age in the Harlem Renaissance. I imagine the world of the living as a vibrant, thriving underground jazz club in Harlem, where a musician like Orpheus could be looking for a break, with Eurydice being more from a Hooverville, suffering from the turmoil of The Great Depression and hoping to find kinder, more generous souls among the creatives. I see Perspeohone running a gorgeous Art Deco speakeasy in both worlds, and Hadestown reflecting the Rust Belt future of automobile cities. Everything in Hadestown looks like Depression-era Detroit, but with 50 years' coating of coal dust and crude oil. (Everything outside of Hades's plush, old men's club vibe office, that is.) His office is located skybox style over Hadestown, where he often watches the workers as a factory manager might, from behind a clean, safe wall of windows.

The Christmas Orphans Club

Book plot: Finn and Hannah have spent everything Christmas together since they were college sophmores. They've built found family traditions throughout their twenties...but this is the year that may all change. I picture this as a dozen 30-45 min episodes, going year by year, so the set up is less like the book's chronology and more like the Netflix remake of The Four Seasons.

Bed, Brunch, and Bodies

Season One: Dead & Breakfast -- book 1 of the Dead & Breakfast Mysteries by Kat Hillis & Rosiee Thor

Leverage International

A United Kingdom based Leverage spin-off, showing a branch of Leverage Int'l run by Astrid Pickford (Sophie's stepdaughter, played by Alexandra Park), with occasional help from Hurley (Drew Powell)