{"id":2290809,"date":"2026-02-20T10:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2290809"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:43:12","slug":"severance-producer-boards-sequel-to-nigerian-netflix-hit-black-book-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/severance-producer-boards-sequel-to-nigerian-netflix-hit-black-book-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Severance\u2019 Producer Boards Sequel to Nigerian Netflix Hit \u2018Black Book\u2019 (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2880194\/\">Nicholas Weinstock<\/a>, the Emmy-nominated producer of Severance, is on board to produce The Black Book 2 \u2013 Old Scores, the sequel to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm10296537\/\">Editi Effiong<\/a>\u2019s 2023 Nigerian revenge thriller that smashed records worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The original <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0389557\/\">Black Book<\/a>, made for just $1 million, hit no. 3 on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\">Netflix<\/a>\u2019s global charts in 2023, ranking in the top 10 in more than 69 countries and racking up more than 20 million views worldwide. It stars <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1816193\/\">Richard Mofe-Damijo<\/a> as Paul Edima, a former hitman and deacon, who takes revenge after his son is framed and killed by a corrupt police unit.<\/p>\n<p>Weinstock\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0962067\/\">Invention Studios<\/a> is producing The Black Book 2 along with Effiong\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0704038\/\">Anakle Films<\/a>. Effiong returns as writer and director on the sequel. The feature picks up where <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0389557\/\">Black Book<\/a> ended, with Paul Edima continuing his assault on the corrupt system. A blurb for the film says the second installment will \u201cdelve deeper\u2026into themes of justice, redemption, and societal unrest in contemporary Nigeria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Weinstock, the Emmy-nominated producer of Severance, is on board to produce The Black Book 2 \u2013 Old Scores, the sequel to Editi Effiong\u2019s 2023 Nigerian revenge thriller that smashed records worldwide. The original Black Book, made for just $1 million, hit no. 3 on Netflix\u2019s global charts in 2023, ranking in the top 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2290810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2290809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u2018Severance-Producer-Boards-Sequel-to-Nigerian-Netflix-Hit-\u2018Black-Book.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290811,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290809\/revisions\/2290811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2290810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}