You’re going to see shape-shifting, body jumping, telepaths, people born with the ability to defy the laws of physics, all in the context of our past, present and future world.” It merges the mystical and the scientific seamlessly. It’s a love/hate story of African immortals that connects people on the African continent to the Diaspora. It’s expansive, disturbing, and unique, said Kahiu and Okafor. “We love Octavia Butler and her work and have for decades.
Kahiu has often referred to her aesthetic as Afro Bubblegum Art. They both identify themselves as Africanfuturists. Kahiu and Okorafor both attribute aspects of their career paths to reading Butler’s Wild Seed, in which they saw that there was a voice for women of color and that they too could be that voice. 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. Octavia Butler was a visionary and we look forward to honoring the scope of her work and sharing it with the world.” It fullfills our promise and legacy to be disrupters. Julius and I are proud to have this masterpiece in our hands.
“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,” said Davis. Wild Seed was the first tome chronologically and third to be published in the five-book Patternmaster series from Science Fiction Hall of Famer Butler, who died in 2006 at the age of 58. The moment Doro meets Anyanwu, he covets her and from the villages of 17th-century Nigeria to 19th-century United States, their courtship becomes a power struggle that echoes through generations, irrevocably changing what it means to be human.Amazon Alum Jeff Blackburn Joins Roku Board No one poses a true threat to Anyanwu - until she meets Doro. She uses her powers to cure her neighbors and birth entire tribes, surrounding herself with kindred who both fear and respect her. She can heal with a bite and transform her own body, mending injuries and reversing aging. He fears no one - until he meets Anyanwu.Īnyanwu is an entity like Doro and yet different. With a lonely eternity ahead of him, Doro breeds supernaturally gifted humans into empires that obey his every desire. An ancient spirit with boundless powers, he possesses humans, killing without remorse as he jumps from body to body to sustain his own life. In an epic, game-changing, moving and brilliant story of love and hate, two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together - and changing the destiny of the human race (Viola Davis).ĭoro knows no higher authority than himself.
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