Oprah's Harpo films to adapt Toni Morrison's novel 'Paradise' as ABC miniseries

Jet, August 22, 2005

Entertainment mogul Oprah Winfrey is planning to bring Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison's best-selling novel Paradise to television.

Harpo Films, the motion picture arm of Winfrey's Harpo Productions company, and ABC television will adapt Paradise as a four-hour television miniseries.

Paradise, Morrison's 1998 novel, chronicles the 1976 brutal murder of several women by a gang of Black men in Oklahoma.

Most recently, ABC and Winfrey collaborated to turn the late Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God into one of the most watched television movies of last season.

That project was directed by Darnell Martin, who will write the screenplay and direct Paradise.