Netflix have found the writers for the adaptation of Femi Fadugba’s The Upper World,

Daniel Kaluuya is set to star in and produce the project with THR reporting that British writers Daniel Fajemisin-Duncan and Marlon Smith are on board to pen the script.

The book, which is the first of a trilogy due to be published this August, focuses on Esso, a man caught in a deadly feud who realizes he has an unexpected gift: access to a world where he can see glimpses of the past and the future. A generation away, a young woman named Rhia is walking to football practice in 2035, unaware that the mysterious stranger she’s about to meet desperately needs her help to avert a bullet fired 15 years ago.

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