The View’s Sunny Hostin is so excited that her e book trilogy is being tailored right into a collection at Amazon and hopes that her cohost Whoopi Goldberg might be concerned within the challenge.
“Now we have been greenlit to pilot. So, we’re writing the pilot proper now, and we might be turning that in to Amazon in about two or three weeks, so it’s properly on its manner,” Sunny, 55, revealed on The View’s “Behind the Desk” podcast on Tuesday, Could 28. “I would really like Octavia Spencer to play the position of Cindy if her time permits. If her time doesn’t enable, if Whoopi Goldberg’s time permits, I would really like Whoopi Goldberg to play Cindy.”
“I’ve made overtures. I haven’t heard something,” she mentioned whereas speaking in regards to the casting course of.
“It’s going to be a season per e book,” Sunny continued. “Amazon has the rights to all three books. I would really like Zendaya as properly, and I’ve loads of goals.”
She additionally talked about John David Washington and Regé-Jean Web page as potential leads she is eyeing for the collection.
Sunny launched the primary novel of the trilogy, Summer time on the Bluffs, in 2020. The second e book, Summer time on Sag Harbor, got here out in 2023.
“There’s loads of enjoyable on this e book — and intercourse scenes! Pleasure Behar advised me {that a} seashore learn all the time has to have good intercourse,” Sunny advised Nearer in Could 2023 of her second novel. “It’s additionally historic fiction. I hope folks will get pleasure from that they’re studying about historical past in a enjoyable manner.”
The third e book, Summer time on Highland Seashore, was launched on Tuesday.
“I deliberate it as a trilogy and a love letter to the locations that I summer season in,” she defined. “They’re typically African-American communities that nobody actually knew about. [The settings are ] very personal, very unique and really historic. There’s loads of historical past, which I realized from the individuals who have lived there for generations.”
Along with including printed creator to her in depth resume, the TV host launched the media firm Sunny Hostin Productions in 2021.
“I need to guarantee that somebody watches and is aware of that seeing an Afro Latina journalist on display screen is a chance,” she advised Variety of the enterprise.
Sunny has all the time loved writing, which led her to inform unimaginable tales in her novels.
“I’ve journaled since I used to be younger, earlier than it was a factor. I might additionally make up tales as a result of I beloved the method of writing,” she mentioned. “I undoubtedly didn’t think about working with Whoopi Goldberg daily.”
