Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Ava DuVernay is set to write, direct, and produce the film adaptation Caste, based on the novel Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents written by Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson, according to Variety.
DuVernay will produce the feature adaptation alongside ARRAY Filmworks’ Sarah Bremner and Paul Garnes.
Netflix executive Tendo Nagenda is partnering with DuVernary for the project.
Caste will use a “multiple-story structure to examine the unspoken system that has shaped America and chronicles how our lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions dating back generations.”