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No./ 13 Get ready for a road trip from hell

IT’S HARD TO say when the revolution began, but it’s true to say that Misha Green will play a major part in it. Back in 2016, she created slavery-era series , which she describes as an escape-heist thriller “where it just happens to be your own life which you’re stealing”. Theis also a period piece with solid genre underpinnings, and a mostly Black cast. This time, though, there’s a reclamation underway. “Black people are usually the ones that die first in the horror movie,” she says, “and we’re non-existent in basically all sci-fi realms, so this idea of taking all of that genre, and repurposing, and seeing Black people in it was exciting.”

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