Tiffany Haddish, Carmon Ejogo, and Blair Underwood join Octavia Spencer's Netflix drama

It’s been over a year since we heard about Madam CJ Walker, the upcoming Netflix drama from Octavia Spencer about the eponymous Black haircare mogul, but now it sounds like the project is moving forward. According to Variety, it’ll be a “limited series” (which just means “a short season” on Netflix), and bunch of big names have already signed on to appear. Spencer will be playing Walker/Sarah Breedlove, who will eventually go on to become the first Black woman to be a self-made millionaire in the United States (and this was in the late-1800s, just in case that’s not sufficiently impressive), but that seems more like a final episode thing than a basic premise thing.