Tracy Oliver Adapting Jasmine Guillory’s ‘The Wedding Date’ For Netflix; Prince Harry & Meghan Markle Among Producers

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• Related Stories Documentary Prince Harry And Meghan Take Bite of ‘Cookie Queens’: “Absolutely Irresistible” Girl Scouts Documentary Heading To Sundance News Harry & Meghan’s Archewell Productions Extends Deal With Netflix Marking the first novel in Guillory’s Wedding Date series, The Wedding Date was published in January 2018.
• Oliver first broke out in 2017 with the comedy Girls Trip, becoming the first Black woman to write a film that grossed over $100 million at the global box office.
• She went on to write Little, The Sun Is Also a Star, and the horror-comedy The Blackening, also creating and exec producing the TV series First Wives Club and Amazon’s Harlem.
• On the television side, she currently has multiple projects in active development, including two book-based thriller dramas: Paper Gods at Netflix and Not a Happy Family at Starz.
• In film, she’s developing Girls Trip 2, The Blackening 2, and Deck the Y’alls, a holiday film starring Octavia Spencer and Jessica Chastain.