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1. The immortal life of henrietta lacks on netflix update#
2. The immortal life of henrietta lacks on netflix tv#

Wolfe will direct from a screenplay that he also wrote, so Winfrey should be in very good hands here (I smell potential Emmy nominations down the road). Winfrey won’t be playing Henrietta Lacks however she’ll be playing her daughter Deborah Lacks in a film that will chronicle her search to learn about her mother and to understand how the unauthorized harvesting of Lacks’ cells in 1951 led to unprecedented medical breakthroughs.

The immortal life of henrietta lacks on netflix tv#

HBO has announced today that the premium cable TV network has given the greenlight to “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” starring Oprah Winfrey (initially she was expected to just produce). But it’s taken 6 years to finally push it into production. The adaptation was said to be high on HBO’s priority list at the time, thanks to her encouragement. Oprah reportedly loved the book so much that she “couldn’t put it down,” she said 5 years ago, and read all 384 pages in one sitting. The book was published in February of 2010, and I encourage you to pick up a copy if you haven’t. There’s a lot of meat to chew on here, and I can see why Oprah would be interested in making a film based on Lack’s story, and aftermath. “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” tells the story of Lacks, a poor African America Baltimore mother of five who died of cervical cancer in 1951 at age 31, and whose cancerous cells, removed and cultured from her body for medical research by doctors at Johns Hopkins (without her family’s knowledge), led to significant breakthroughs in medical research, ranging from aiding the development of the cure for polio, to AIDS-related treatments, and much more.īut that doesn’t even begin to really uncover the story of this mostly unknown black woman, her family, and the significant contributions she unknowingly made to science.

It’s a book I first read when the announcement of Oprah’s option was made in 2010, and I picked it up again 2 weekends ago, looking for a specific passage in it, and instead found myself re-reading the book all over again, if only because I couldn’t find what exactly I was looking for.

The immortal life of henrietta lacks on netflix update#

Our last update on the project was about a year ago before that, there hadn’t been much development news since that initial announcement, leading me to wonder during that 5-year span, whether the project was dead. Coincidentally, I’m currently re-reading “ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” the non-fiction book by Rebecca Skloot, which Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films optioned in 2010, to adapt into a feature film for HBO.