Kindred trailer brings Octavia E. Butler’s time-travel classic to life

Plans to adapt Octavia E. Butler’s seminal novel KindredThe book has been adapted for the screen many times since 1979. Branden Jacobs Jenkins, a writer (WatchmenThis science-fiction story (called ) has finally been given a home by FX and Hulu. FX launched the full trailer Tuesday after a teaser last week that revealed the whole first season will be available to Hulu in December.

Janicza Bravo and Darren Aronofsky produced Executive ProducedZolaHe also directed and piloted the flight. KindredA more grounded approach is required to experience sensational time travel. Mallori Johnson (WeCrashedDana is an aspiring writer, young Black woman. But, as FX puts it in the show’s official synopsis,” before Dana can settle, she “finds herself being violently pulled back and forth in time to a nineteenth-century plantation with which she and her family are surprisingly and intimately linked. An interracial romance threads 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 ties that bind.”

Full-season Release of Kindred bears a striking resemblance Amazon Studios’ approach to Underground Railroad, Barry Jenkins’ 2021 television adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s 2016 novel of the same, which was released in full last year on May 14. Although the Golden Globe Award was won for Best Miniseries of Television Film and the Peabody Award went to the series, there is a question about whether it would have received a greater audience if it had been broadcast episodically. A sci-fi series that is based on a classic novel could be more ready to go viral.

Octavia E.. Butler, a Hugo Award Winner and MacArthur Fellow in her long career, was a remarkable figure. KindredHer most influential and popular novel. We’ll see if the series adaptation can make the same kind of connection with audiences when it drops in full on Dec. 13.

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