Dallas Jackson (Thriller, Welcome To Sudden Death), David Marshall Grant (Brothers and Sisters, Nashville), and Malcolm D. Lee (The Best Man franchise, Girls Trip) have teamed up to produce drama series Truth for NBC, Deadline reports.
The series will be written by Jackson and Grant and is based on the life of Dr. Roger Mitchell, Jr., Washington, D.C.’s youngest and first Black chief medical examiner. Truth follows Xavier “Truth” Hall, the youngest chief medical examiner to take over a major-city morgue, using his genius level medical knowledge to help solve mysteries about how people die and give families closure. He also uses the lessons of the dead to help the living, including his own estranged drug-addicted father, according to a synopsis provided by Deadline.
The series will be produced by Lee’s Blackmaled Productions as well as Universal Television, per Deadline.
Jackson, Grant, and Lee will executive produce the series, with Lee directing, along with Dominique Telson (Good Girl Jane, Safe Space) and Michael Scott Allen (Special, Twinsters), while Mitchell Jr. will co-executive produce, according to Deadline.
Jackson wrote and directed horror-crime drama Thriller as well as Welcome to Sudden Death and The System, in addition to executive producing ABC’s Rebel, per Deadline.
Grant wrote and executive produced Brothers and Sisters, Nashville, Smash, Code Black and A Million Little Things, and wrote the 2022 film Spoiler Alert from director Michael Showalter, according to Deadline. He is currently developing a film for Constine and the James Patterson Company along with producer Cathy Konrad (Walk the Line, Scream).
Lee is a writer and producer with credits on The Best Man franchise, Girls Trip and Night School. He directs and executive produces NBC’s Need to Know in addition to an upcoming television adaptation of Ellen Won Steil’s (Fortune, The Lives of Others) novel Becoming Marlowe Fin, per Deadline. His first novel, The Best Man: Unfinished Business is a continuation of his film series of the same name, and is planned to be a trilogy.
Mitchell Jr. has worked for 20 years as a board-certified forensic pathologist and was recently the President of Howard University Hospital. Previously, he served as Chief Medical Examiner for Washington, D.C., where he was, at one point, the youngest chief medical examiner in the country, according to Deadline. He co-authored the book Death in Custody: How America Ignores the Truth and What We Can Do About It with Jay Aronson.