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Grantham Coleman, who previously appeared in Paramount+'s Bass Reeves, Netflix's Rustin, Starz's Power Book III: Raising Kanan, and other notable projects, takes on a significant role as Talcott Garland. Additionally, Tiffany Mack has appeared in Marvel's Jessica Jones, Sundance TV's Hap and Leonard, CBS's Timeless and SEAL Team, and The CW's iZombie. Paulina Lule has credits in series such as Agents of SHIELD, The Good Place, NCIS, For The People, and Scandal, as well as films like Marvelous and The Black Hole.
Sherman Payne, known for his work on Shameless, will act as the showrunner of Emperor of Ocean Park, with Damian Marcano set to direct multiple episodes. The series is produced by John Wells Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers including John Wells, Sherman Payne, Damian Marcano, Shukree Tilghman, and Erin Jontow from JWP.
Here is the goodreads synopsis of The Emperor of Ocean Park:
Intricate, superbly written, often scathingly funny - a brilliantly crafted tapestry of ambition, family secrets, murder, integrity tested, and justice has gone terribly wrong.
An extraordinary fiction debut: a large, stirring novel of suspense that is, at the same time, a work of brilliantly astute social observation. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the eastern seaboard--old families who summer on Martha's Vineyard--and the inner circle of an Ivy League law school. It tells the story of a complex family with a single, seductive link to the shadowlands of crime.
The Emperor of the title, Judge Oliver Garland, has just died, suddenly. A brilliant legal mind, conservative and famously controversial, Judge Garland made more enemies than friends. Many years before, he'd earned a judge's highest prize: a Supreme Court nomination. But in a scene of bitter humiliation, televised across the country, his nomination collapsed in scandal. The humbling defeat became a private agony, one from which he never recovered.
But now the Judge's death raises, even more, questions--and it seems to be leading to a second, even more, terrible scandal. Could Oliver Garland have been murdered? He has left a strange message for his son Talcott, a professor of law at a great university, entrusting him with "the arrangements"--a mysterious puzzle that only Tal can unlock, and only by unearthing the ambiguities of his father's past. When another man is found dead, and then another, Talcott--wry, straight-arrow, almost too self-aware to be a man of action--must risk his career, his marriage, and even his life, following the clues his father left him.
Intricate, superbly written, often scathingly funny, The Emperor of Ocean Park is a triumphant work of fiction, packed with character and incident--a brilliantly crafted tapestry of ambition, family secrets, murder, integrity tested, and justice has gone terribly wrong.
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