Agony of the Feet: Half of Kunta Kinte's foot is cut off to stop him from making any more escape attempts.Chicken George was also Lea for obvious reasons. Adaptation Name Change: Tom Moore was Tom Lea in the novel.So the group has to trick Evan into being surrounded, before tying him to a tree and then leaving for good. In the series, the Senator and Evan Brent prevent them from leaving by making up a bullshit excuse about debt. In the book, Chicken George and his family were able to leave their former plantation easily once slavery was done. Actionized Adaptation: The ending, specifically.Accordion to Most Sailors: One of the sailors on the slave ship plays an accordion.LeVar Burton helped produce a remake of the first series in 2016, which apparently had new facts that had come up about Kunta Kinte's life since the first one was made (they included his growing up in a city rather than a village and that he knew several languages, including a smattering of English). As a piece of trivia, this film features several actors who would later appear in various Star Trek productions, including Burton ( Commander Geordi La Forge), Avery Brooks ( Captain Benjamin Sisko), Kate Mulgrew ( Captain Kathryn Janeway), and Tim Russ ( Lieutenant Tuvok). This was a single two-hour side story, bringing back LeVar Burton as Kunta Kinte. The first Roots, the generally better received one, went only up through Reconstruction after The American Civil War, while a 1979 Sequel, Roots: The Next Generations, picked up in 1882 and went through to Alex Haley himself, culminating in his visiting Kunte Kinte's home village in 1967.ġ988 brought a third (fictional) entry: Roots: The Gift. Roots was a TV Mini Series based on the eponymous novel about the family line of its author, Alex Haley, and their struggles coping with slavery from the time of his ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his Civil War descendants' liberation.įirst broadcast on ABC in January 1977, the series was a tremendous success, prompting new public interest in genealogy and, in regard to television, established the Mini Series as a high profile prestige format for prime time.

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