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A group of seemingly ordinary people from South London unexpectedly develop super powers. They don't seem to have a connection between them aside from being Black.
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A group of seemingly ordinary people from South London unexpectedly develop super powers. They don't seem to have a connection between them aside from being Black.
The series addresses sickle cell anemia through its superhero narrative by showing how the disease makes an individual extraordinary. The series shows sickle cell as the source of the superpowers. Rapman talked about this interesting narrative and explained how, through this series, he wanted to address a major disease that mostly affects people living in the Sub-Saharan African region. Speaking to the BBC at the London premiere of the series, the showrunner said, "It's something that has always affected our community and I never understood it. I wanted to show how a disease like this can make you extraordinary."
Supacell filming took place between July 4, 2022, and December 10, 2022 in London. The filming locations included Thamesmead, Peckham and Deptford. The production was confirmed to have wrapped by April 2023.
Andrew Onwubolu, aka Rapman, is a British rapper, record producer, screenwriter and film director. He is known for dealing with socially conscious themes, as well as his uniquely vivid style of storytelling through the medium of rap.
The series was announced as commissioned by Netflix in November 2021 with Mouktar Mohammed and Henrietta Lee of New Wave as executive producer and associate producer. The executive producers are Anna Ferguson and Steve Searle of Netflix with Mark Hedges as series producer. The production used a specialized ARRI 35 camera which has been designed to show Black skin in the best and most complimentary way.
Rapman began writing Supacell in 2020, the year the pandemic hit everything. There were often heated and frank discussions over writers, special effects and two composers came and went before he persuaded Netflix to let him go with a third, Sillkey, the songwriter, producer and musician. Having persuaded commissioners at Netflix to develop his idea of a drama about a group of regular people in south London who become mysteriously afflicted -- because it's like an illness -- with superpowers, Rapman spent six months writing drafts, alone and then in a writers room, for three of its six episodes and the show's bible.
