DOWNTOWN ROME TRANSFORMS TO 1800S ERA FOR FILMING OF FX SERIES SHOW

Picture of Downtown Rome being transformed for the filming of "Kindred"

Downtown Rome is again home to Hollywood as the 100 block of Broad Street has been closed down for the filming of an FX series called “Kindred”.

The filming company has transformed the southbound lanes, as well as storefronts, of the 100 block into an 1800’s era downtown area.

The TV show is an adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s novel “Kindred” by, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Darren Aronofsky, and “The Americans” creators Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields.

The series will be an eight-episode sci-fi show that centers on Dana (Mallori Johnson), a young Black woman and aspiring writer who has uprooted her life of familial obligation and relocated to Los Angeles, ready to claim a future that, for once, feels all her own. But, before she can get settled into her new home, she finds herself being violently pulled back and forth in time to a nineteenth-century plantation with which she and her family are surprisingly and intimately linked. An Interracial romance threads through her past and present, and the clock is ticking as she struggles to confront the secrets she never knew ran through her blood, in this genre-breaking exploration of the ties that bind.

Other stars include Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, Gayle Rankin, Austin Smith, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, and David Alexander Kaplan.

(Coosa Valley News)