Now this is the BIG TIME!
According to eurweb.com John Legend and his Get Lifted production company will executive produce WGN America’s slave drama “Underground.” He will also oversee all music aspects of the series, a role Kanye West had been in talks for but a deal was never finalized.
“Underground” follows a group of slaves who plan a daring escape from a Georgia plantation to cross 600 miles to freedom, aided along the way by a secret abolitionist couple running a station on the Underground Railroad, Deadline reports.