The TV adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s novel, Kindred, will hit the small screen this winter.
Per Deadlinewas announced at New York Comic Con on Sunday that the series relatives will be released exclusively on Hulu with all eight episodes available to watch on FX starting December 13, 2022. The highly anticipated series received a pilot order from the network earlier this year, and production began last September with Zola director Janicza Bravo at the helm. guards‘s Branden Jacobs-Jenkins will serve as showrunner for the series.
According to the official summary:
“relatives will tell the story of “Dana (played by Julliard School grad and newcomer Mallori Johnson), a young black woman and aspiring writer who has uprooted her life from family obligations and moved to Los Angeles, ready to face a future. demands that, for once, feels all her own But before she can settle down in her new home, she is forcibly pulled back and forth in time to a nineteenth-century plantation with which she and her family are surprisingly and closely associated An interracial romance runs through her past and present, and the clock is ticking as she struggles to confront the secrets she never knew ran through her blood, in this genre-breaking exploration of the bonds that bind.
A fan of the book, Jacobs-Jenkins, shared via Weekly entertainment so long his adaptation will not replace the original, it will delve deeper into some characters and settings.
“It’s been about 40 years since the book was released. It’s about refreshing the themes and wondering how they’ve been challenged or expanded by the rich evolution of social thought since then.”
Works by Beloved Sci-Fi Author Finally Finding a Place on Small and Large Screens
On Monday, deadline reported that acclaimed director Garrett Bradley will oversee a film adaptation of the author’s acclaimed 1993 novel Parable of the Sowerwhere A24 recently acquired the rights.
Below is the synopsis for: Parable of the Sower via Goodreads:
In 2025, as the world descends into madness and anarchy, a woman embarks on a fateful journey to a brighter future. Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the few safe neighborhoods on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher and a handful of other civilians try to save what remains of a culture destroyed by drugs, disease, war and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the right path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extremely sensitive to the pain of others. When their camp is destroyed by fire, Lauren’s family is killed and she is forced into a world of danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety as she devises a revolutionary idea that could save all of humanity.
Bestselling author Octavia Butler, who died in 2006 at age 58, was also the first science fiction writer ever to receive a Macarthur “Genius” Grant.