Skip to main content Currently Reading 'Judas and the Black Messiah' Star Dominique Fishback Joins Samuel L. Jackson Apple Series, Ramin Bahrani to Direct Joe Otterson, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Variety has learned. In addition, Ramin Bahrani has come onboard to direct and executive produce the limited series, which is based on the novel of the same name by Walter Mosley. More from Variety Jackson stars as Grey, a 91 year old man forgotten by his family, by his friends, by even himself. On the brink of sinking even deeper into a lonely dementia, Grey experiences a seismic shift when he’s given the tremendous opportunity to briefly regain his memories, and uses this precious and fleeting lucidity to solve his nephew’s death and come to terms with his past.