Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade are partnering to produce a television adaptation of Alanna Bennett’s young adult novel, The Education of Kia Greer, Fox Entertainment Studios announced this week.
The project, optioned by Fox Entertainment Studios, is based on Bennett’s 2025 novel published by Knopf Penguin Random House. The book follows Kia Greer, the second-youngest daughter of a famous Hollywood family, as she navigates a public relationship with pop star Cassius Campbell and questions the nature of fame. The adaptation will explore themes of family, identity, and the pressures of growing up in the social media age.
Bennett, a screenwriter and author who has worked on series including XO, Kitty and Roswell, New Mexico, is adapting the novel for television. She recently served as a producer on the second season of XO, Kitty for Netflix and has also worked on Amazon’s The Hospital and the CW’s Roswell, New Mexico. Bennett also wrote the original rom-com Corinne Aster’s Third Act, which she sold to Orion Pictures.
Union’s production company, I’ll Have Another, and Wade and Jon Marcus’ 59th & Prairie Entertainment will co-produce the series. I’ll Have Another, founded in 2018 and named after Union’s memoir We’re Going to Need More Wine, focuses on authentic narratives centering marginalized communities. 59th & Prairie Entertainment, named after the South Side Chicago street where Wade grew up, aims to elevate personal and universal stories.
The development of The Education of Kia Greer is part of a broader trend of adaptations of novels by Black authors focusing on coming-of-age stories. Sonja Warfield and Susan Fales-Hill are adapting The Davenports, while Hulu is developing a television series based on Amy DuBois Barnett’s If I Ruled The World, with Lee Daniels co-writing the pilot. Peacock is also developing Kennedy Ryan’s Before I Let Head, and television adaptations of Tia Williams’ Seven Days in June and Deesha Philyaw’s The Secret Lives of Church Ladies are also in the works.
