John Ridley, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave has been working on a new Marvel Television series for ABC that's been shrouded in secrecy. Ridley explained to Collider how his desire to reach a different audience brought him to Marvel?s table. He remembered growing up reading comicbooks at an age where kids could care less about films like American Crime or 12 Years a Slave. He pointed to Marvel's Jessica Jones as a source of inspiration. Ridley says in ABC's drama American Crime, it is not just a matter about whether people like a movie, but also about how accurate it is. For example, in episode 2 of the show used an actual sexual assault nurse. In Episode 4, the young man doing the spoken word piece is a real survivor of assault.
