King’s MACRO, and will be directed by Victoria Mahoney. Butler’s book Dawn is also getting the television series treatment by Ava DuvVernay, Charles D. There’s also the series adaptation of Wild Seed by Viola Davis’ JuVee Productions, directed by Wanuri Kahiu and written by Nnedi Okorafor. Kindred, a television series to be directed by Zola director Janicza Bravo and written by Branden Jacob-Jenkins, is the most recent project based on a Butler novel. This is the fourth Butler project put into production by a major Hollywood studio. A teenager with unique abilities becomes humanity’s leader in the fight against extinction.
The film will be set in a near-future Los Angeles suffering from societal apocalypse. Naomi Osaka documentary director Garrett Bradley will direct Parable of the Sower, her debut directing a a feature-length film for a major studio. As Deadline reports, the book was originally published in 1993, but after fans rediscovered the book, it shot up to the New York Times bestseller list, achieving one of Butler’s career goals. The movie studio won the rights to adapt Butler’s novel into a feature film. Octavia Butler’s popular science fiction novel Parable of the Sower is coming to A24.
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