Children of Blood and Bone - YA Fantasy Novel Adaptation

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'Dope' Director Rick Famuyiwa Tackling YA Fantasy 'Children of Blood and Bone' (Exclusive)

Temple Hill, the prolific banner whose recent credits include 'Love, Simon,' 'First Man' and the 'Maze Runner' movies, is producing along with Karen Rosenfelt.

Rick Famuyiwa, director of the critical darling, coming-of-age movie Dope, has signed on to direct Children of Blood and Bone, Fox 2000's adaptation of the best-selling YA novel by Tomi Adeyemi.

Marty Bowen, Isaac Klausner and John Fischer of Temple Hill, the prolific banner whose recent credits include Love, Simon, First Man and the Maze Runner movies, are producing along with Karen Rosenfelt via her Sunswept Entertainment company. Famuyiwa will also produce under production shingle Verse with Scott Falconer serving as associate producer.

The book is set in a magic-infused kingdom named Orisha, where a young woman named Zelie Adebola witnesses the death of her mother and other magicians, called "maji," under the order of a ruthless king. The woman has a chance to restore magic to her land but has to first team up with a rogue princess and outwit and outrun a crown prince while avoiding prowling snow "leoponaires" and vengeful spirits that wait in the waters.

Adeyemi made headlines in the publishing world when she sold her debut book in the seven-figure range, one of the biggest for a YA debut. The book, which the author has pitched as an "African Last Airbender" and "Black Panther with magic," was published March 6, 2018, and hit best-seller status. The second novel in an intended trilogy, Children of Virtue and Vengeance, will be released June 4, 2019.

David Magee wrote the script adapting the book. Gillian Bohrer is overseeing for Fox 2000.

Famuyiwa has directed several movies about the black American experience but really caught the attention of studio execs with Dope, which centered on teens from Inglewood, California, and was a Sundance hit. The movie led to his hiring on the Warner Bros. Flash movie, although he later left the project over creative differences.

Famuyiwa helmed the HBO movie Confirmation, which starred Kerry Washington as Anita Hill, and is currently working on The Mandalorian, the Star Wars live-action TV show that will air on Disney+.

He is repped by WME, Oasis Media Group and Del Shaw.

[CelluloidPal]

I thought the YA adaptation thing went the way of the Dodo already.

[puddy77]

This is now being produced by Lucasfilm: https://deadline.com/2019/08/childre...ey-1202662804/

[Gacivory]

That’s cool! Haven’t read the book, but heard great things!

[Member-275053]

Great news!

I purchased the audiobook a while ago, but still haven't gotten around to listening to it yet.

Glad to see Lucasfilm is fully behind this.

[Rodney-2187]

The book is set in a magic-infused kingdom named Orisha, where a young woman named Zelie Adebola witnesses the death of her mother and other magicians, called "maji," under the order of a ruthless king. The woman has a chance to restore magic to her land but has to first team up with a rogue princess and outwit and outrun a crown prince while avoiding prowling snow "leoponaires" and vengeful spirits that wait in the waters.

Sounds awesome!

[JustinB13]

Not going to read the book because the only series that actually respected their books were Hunger Games and Harry Potter. But this sounds interesting!

[mwynn]

Kay Oyegun To Script ‘Children Of Blood And Bone’ For Fox/Disney; Looks To Be First Lucasfilm Pic Project That Isn’t ‘Star Wars’ Or ‘Indiana Jones

https://deadline.com/2019/08/childre...ey-1202662804/


Disney is giving a full embrace to Children of Blood and Bone, the action fantasy film based on the bestselling novel by Nigerian-American author Tomi Adeyemi that originated as a Fox 2000 property.

[Gacivory]

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=315071

[CyberpunkCentral]

Fox and Lucasfilm are now reunited.

[avs commenter]

Lucasfilm has done plenty of non SW and Indiana Jones projects. Just not recently

[Member-275053]

Bump

Since some people can't seem to find it.

[Member-275053]

Exclusive: Read a stunning first excerpt from the Children of Blood and Bone sequel

Entertainment Weekly

[imsounoriginal]

Disney, Lucasfilm Set to Release First Non-‘Star Wars’ or Indiana Jones Project

Since The Walt Disney Company acquired George Lucas’s Lucasfilm in 2012, the studios have only worked together to release Star Wars — including the Skywalker Saga sequel trilogy — and Indiana Jones film projects.

Now, they are set to bring Children of Blood and Bone to the big screen.

According to Deadline:

This Is Us writer Kay Oyegun is making a deal to write a new script adaptation of the epic fantasy with Rick Famuyiwa, who remains attached to direct. Sources said that the project caught the fancy of Lucasfilm and that its chief Kathy [Kathleen] Kennedy…

[CyberpunkCentral]

I don't know if I heard correctly (because a certain someone won't STFU in the background), but it looks like Fox and Lucasfilm are really reuniting for this. If I'm wrong, correct me.

[puddy77]

I guess this is now at Paramount: https://gizmodo.com/children-of-bloo...t-a-1848346761

[puddy77]

Some insight on the move: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...te-1235078906/

[-JKR-]

Let's hope it won't get dumped on Paramount+.

Not shocked about Lucasfilm not being able to produce something outside of the already established franchises, especially under Disney.

I doubt that even 20th Century is going to be able to produce much original stuff going forward.

[unberechenbar]

I had this confused with Netflix's Shadow and Bone.

[captveg]

Lucasfilm let rights lapse since they focused too much on Star Wars

"Sources contend that Lucasfilm brass let development languish as the studio turned its focus to its rapidly growing Star Wars series slate, which includes not only more Mandalorian seasons but The Book of Boba Fett and numerous others."