Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The pilot, directed by Janicza Bravo, has led to an eight-episode series order Octavia E. Butler‘s Kindred is officially coming to ...

Plans to adapt Octavia E. Butler’s seminal novel Kindred for screen have floated around Hollywood since the book was published in 1979. But with the help of writer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen), ...

Actress Mallori Johnson first encountered the work of writer Octavia Butler when she read “Fledgling,” a novel about a young Black vampire. It was the summer before she left home for the Julliard ...

Octavia Butler created “Kindred” as a response to one of the prevailing notions in the 1970s Black Power movement regarding previous generations’ seemingly quiet forbearance under slavery and Jim Crow ...

The series adapts Butler's 1979 novel about a Black woman who travels between the modern day and Antebellum times. First published in 1979, “Kindred” focuses on Dana James, a young Black aspiring ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sometimes, you have to time travel to help heal generational wounds. "Kindred," a new FX series on Hulu, is based on the 1979 ...

For the first time since it was published in 1979, Octavia E. Butler's acclaimed sci-fi novel, Kindred, has been adapted for TV. More specifically, the novel is the source material for an ...

In a beautiful essay in Vulture, published earlier this year, E. Alex Jung writes that Octavia E. Butler “never told an aspiring writer they should give up, rather that they should learn, study, ...

The revered novel about time travel and slavery gets a series iteration starring impressive newcomer Mallori Johnson. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic As the recent kerfuffle involving a ...

The new FX on Hulu series Kindred is the first on-screen adaptation of any work by the great science fiction writer Octavia Butler. It's the story of Dana, a young Black woman who suddenly finds ...