The Roots drummer and late-night bandleader ?uestlove has just signed on as executive music producer for A&E Studios’ reboot of 1977’s Roots. He’ll create authentic African music to score the eight-hour miniseries, which will take another look at America’s history of slavery and revisit the story of Kunta Kinte. The miniseries has also brought in Phillip Noyce and Thomas Carter (Coach Carter) to direct nights one and three. Noyce already knows his way around adaptations, having helmed Patriot Games and 2014’s The Giver.