Exclusive: Netflix is in talks with “Black-ish” and “BlackAF” creator Kenya Barris and “Happy” singer Pharrell Williams to produce a characteristic-length musical about Juneteenth – the commemoration of the finish of slavery in the United States.

Deadline understands that the streamer and the pair are in the early levels of functioning up a system for the challenge, and aspects about storyline are less than wraps, while sources say it is a separate undertaking to the are living musical that they declared in 2018.

Williams will make this task with husband or wife Mimi Valdes along with Barris, who will develop by way of his creation organization Khalabo Ink Modern society.

Williams has just returned from his dwelling state of Virginia, where he introduced with Governor Northam that Juneteenth will be acknowledged as a compensated point out holiday getaway for the initial time in Virginia background.

At that celebration, Williams, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Finest Tune for “Despicable Me 2″’s “Happy” and for Greatest Photo for “Hidden Figures,” which he was a single of the producers, explained that the transfer was a prospect for the govt, corporations and citizens to “stand in solidarity with their African American brothers and sisters.”

“This 12 months, Juneteenth will seem like no other Juneteenth before it,” he additional.

Virginia and New York joined Texas as the states that understand Juneteenth, which celebrates June 19, 1865, the day that Common Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas to announce that slaves had been now free of charge, as a point out getaway. Calls to make Juneteenth a federal vacation have enhanced above the past number of months adhering to the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent protests around police brutality and increasing dialogue around systemic racism in the nation.

Barris has also been vocal about his ambition to make Juneteenth a countrywide holiday break. His most recent collection “BlackAF,” which launched on Netflix in April, highlighted a Juneteenth social gathering and his ABC comedy “Black-ish” committed a landmark episode to the vacation. That episode, which kicked off the show’s fourth period, has been lauded for bringing even much more awareness to the date. It was rebroadcast by ABC on Blackout Tuesday. Barris has mentioned that it’s a person of the most significant things that he’s at any time labored on.

A variety of big Hollywood corporations including CAA, Endeavor, ICM, UTA, Gersh, APA, SAG-AFTRA, The Lede Company and R&C/PMK as perfectly as the likes of Spotify and Twitter have regarded Juneteenth and have made it an once-a-year paid getaway.

Barris is represented by Artists Very first and lawyer Gregg Gellman and Williams is repped by supervisor Ron Laffite and WME.