![]() It is as epic, as game changing, as moving and brilliant as any science fiction novel ever written. “ Wild Seed is a book that shifted my life. With their idea for a TV series, and the Butler estate’s blessings, the project was taken to the marketplace with multiple bids.” “JuVee had pursued the rights to the book for over two years, but it wasn’t until they identified rising talent Kahiu, who was tapped to direct as well as write the pilot with her friend and colleague Okorafor, that the vision became clear on how to turn the beloved book into a TV show. The report says the identification of rising star Kahiu was a catalyst. Doro, a killer who uses his power to breed people like livestock, encounters Anyanwu, a healer who forces him to reassess his millennia of cruel behavior: for centuries, their personal battles change the course of our world as they struggle against the backdrop of time - master versus slave, man versus woman, killer versus healer. The description, per Deadline, which first broke the news: Wild Seed is a love (and hate) story of two African immortals who travel the ages from pre-Colonial West Africa to the far, far future. ![]() The project will be written by author Nnedi Okorafor and Kenyan filmmaker and Rafiki helmer Wanuri Kahiu. They will be developing Wild Seed, the first of Butler’s Patternist sci-fi series. The project comes to the streaming service courtesy of Viola Davis and Julius Tennon, whose JuVee Production has a first-look deal there. ![]() ![]() Amazon is developing an Octavia Butler novel as a drama series. ![]()
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