EXCLUSIVE: Blumhouse‘s sequel to Octavia Spencer revenge flick Ma has found its writer in Ashley Nicole Black, a two-time Emmy-winner known for her work on shows like Shrinking and Ted Lasso.
Blumhouse just announced at its recent Business of Fear symposium that Spencer is coming back for another film. No word yet on a director for the project.
Tate Taylor helmed the 2019 original, from a script by Scotty Landes. It grossed over $60 million worldwide, with fans taking notice of Spencer’s meme-worthy performance as as Sue Ann, a lonely middle-aged woman who befriends a group of teenagers and allows them to party in her basement, only to display increasingly erratic and sinister behavior.
A writer, actress, and comedian, Black received an NAACP Award nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series in 2022 for Ted Lasso, and was again nominated this year for her work on Shrinking, where she’s also an exec producer and recurs as Nikki. Other recent credits include serving as supervising producer and actor on Apple’s Bad Monkey and writing and performing on HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch show.
A former writer and on-air correspondent for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Black began her comedy career at Chicago’s legendary Second City. She is represented by Mosaic, UTA, and Yorn Levine Barnes.
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