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Ava DuVernay adapting sci-fi novel Dawn for the small screen

August 13, 2017 by Gary Collinson

Deadline is reporting that filmmaker Ava DuVernay is teaming up with writer-director Victoria Mahoney to develop a TV adaptation of Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author Octavia E. Butler’s classic 1987 sci-fi novel Dawn.

The series will mark the first time that Butler’s work has been adapted for TV, and tells the story of an African-American woman who works with aliens to resurrect the human race 250 years after a nuclear war. The book is the first in Butler’s Lilith’s Brood trilogy and was followed by 1988’s Adulthood Rites and 1989’s Amago.

DuVernay has recently signed on to direct a five-episode series based upon the story of The Central Park Five for Netflix, and is also attached to direct Rihanna and Lupita Nyong’o in an as-yet-untitled buddy comedy. Her next film however is Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time, which is set for release on April 6th 2018.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Ava DuVernay, Dawn

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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