The 44-year-old first reached out to the filmmaker over Twitter in 2015 about making a show on the Central Park Five.
has received critical acclaim since first airing on the streaming service on May 31. Written and directed by Ava DuVernay, the four-part miniseries chronicles the real life wrongful conviction and imprisonment of five black teenagers for the rape and assault of 28-year-old investment banker Trisha Meili in New York's Central Park in 1989.Korey Wise
were coerced into giving false confessions by prosecutors, before spending a number of years behind bars. Now, millions of people are hearing their harrowing story for the first time. And it's all thanks to one of the five—Raymond Santana.Getty Images/Paras Griffin, Ava DuVernay's 2014 biopic of Martin Luther King, Santana reached out to the filmmaker on Twitter asking if her next film could be about the Central Park Five."What's your next film gonna be on?? #thecentralparkfive #CP5 #centralpark5 maybe???? #wishfulthinking #fingerscrossed," he posted on April 21, 2015.