Patty Jenkins, Chris Pines TV Drama 'One Day She'll Darken' Fills Seven Roles

By Rachel Cruz, Christian Post Contributor Monday, October 16, 2017

"Wonder Woman" actor Chris Pine and director Patty Jenkins are teaming up for an upcoming drama series on TNT. Casting for "One Day She'll Darken" also begins filling up as seven more actors join the show.

These actors are India Eisley ("Underworld Awakening"), Jefferson Mays ("The Americans"), Yul Vazquez ("Last Flag Flying"), Justin Cornwell ("Training Day"), Jay Paulson ("Mad Men"), Golden Brooks ("Girlfriends") and Dylan Smith ("Maze Runner: The Death Cure"). They will work alongside Pine, who is one of the show's leads as well as the executive producer.

"One Day She'll Darken" follows a girl named Fauna Hodel/Pat (Eisley) who tracks down her past to learn who she really is. All she knows is that her birth mom gave her up to an African American casino restroom attendant in Nevada in 1949.

Fauna's search leads her to Dr. George Hodel (Mays), a Hollywood gynecologist who has a dark secret. Along the way, Fauna encounters LAPD cops Billis (Vasguez) and Ohls (Paulson), as well as Los Angeles talents Shye (Cornwell) and Sepp (Smith). Brooks plays Fauna's mom Jimmy Lee, while Pines is former Marine Jay Singletary, who's now working as a paparazzo.

The show is based on a book that Hodel wrote with J.R. Briamonte. In it, Hodel detailed how she was raised among African Americans and believed she was of mix race but she struggled to feel that she belonged.

Jenkins will direct two episodes of "One Day She'll Darken" from a script that Sam Sheridan wrote. TNT ordered for a six-episode run, but there's still no word on when it will premiere.

Meanwhile, Jenkins said that she was blown away by Pine's talent and generosity while they worked together on "Wonder Woman."

"Making that kind of performance look easy is epic badass," the director wrote on Twitter. "He's a beast."

It's unclear, however, if Jenkins and Pine will work together again on the "Wonder Woman" sequel since his character, Steve Trevor, died in the first film. Jenkins admitted that this is a dilemma for her and she still doesn't know how the writers will make this work.

"Wonder Woman 2" has no confirmed theater date from Warner Bros. for now.