Sunny Hostin’s ‘Summer on the Bluffs’ Taps Norman Vance as Showrunner

The Amazon collection adaptation of the Sunny Hostin novel “Summer on the Bluffs” has taken a step ahead, with Norman Vance Jr. boarding the project as showrunner. It stays in development.

Vance will government produce the collection alongside Hostin and Regina Jansen of Sunny Hostin Productions. twentieth Television will government produce, with Amazon MGM Studios producing. Octavia Spencer had beforehand been hooked up as an EP however is not concerned in the present.

Variety solely reported that “Summer on the Bluffs” was in development at Amazon again in 2023. The logline for the present states:

“Amelia Vaux Tanner has lived an amazing life. Dubbed ‘The Witch of Wall Street’ when she was one of the first Black women on the floor of the stock exchange, she married a prominent civil rights attorney and built her dream home on the bluffs of Martha’s Vineyard. Now Ama, as she is affectionately known, is ready to pass along not only her beloved Vineyard home, Chateau Laveau, but also her secrets. Perry, Olivia, and Billie grew up as close as sisters under Ama’s godmotherly guidance. Ama made sure they never lacked for anything. Now grown into beautiful, successful, hard-working professionals, each woman wonders who will be gifted the house—and why, exactly, did Ama come into their lives in the first place?”

Vance beforehand created the Disney collection “Saturdays.” He most not too long ago labored as a consulting producer on the critically-acclaimed Netflix collection “Forever,” which is itself a collection adaptation of the Judy Blume novel of the same identify from Mara Brock Akil. His other TV credit embrace “Swagger” at Apple TV, “Our Kind of People” at Fox, “Queen Sugar” at OWN, and “American Soul” at BET.

He is repped by Heroes and Villains and Goodman Genow.