WU-TANG: AN AMERICAN SAGA
Episode Count: 10
Premiere Date: September 4 (first three episodes at launch and weekly after)
Cast: Ashton Sanders, Shameik Moore, Dave East, Siddiq Saunderson, Marcus Callender, Julian Elijah Martinez, Zolee Griggs, Erika Alexander, TJ Atoms, Johnell Young
Crew: Created and written by Alex Tse and The RZA and executive produced Tse, The RZA, Brian Grazer, Michael Rosenberg and Francie Calfo. Produced by Imagine Television.
Synopsis: Based on one of the most influential and important groups in hip-hop history, Wu-Tang: An American Saga is inspired by “The Wu-Tang Manual” and “Tao of Wu”, and based on the true story of the Wu-Tang Clan. Set in early ’90s New York at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, the show tracks the Clan’s formation, a vision of Bobby Diggs aka The RZA, who strives to unite a dozen young, black men that are torn between music and crime but eventually rise to become the unlikeliest of American success stories.