Octavia E. Butler's 'Kindred' Gets Series Order at FX

Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Kindred’ Gets Series Order at FX

FX Productions has given a full series order to Kindred with Pulitzer Prize-nominee Branden Jacobs-Jenkins acting as writer and showrunner.

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Based upon Octavia E. Butler’s 1979, Kindred follows Dana, a Black woman who finds herself travelling back and forth in time from her modern-day Los Angeles life to an 1815 Maryland plantation.

Newcomer Mallori Johnson will star as Dana in the adaptation of Kindred. — Mallori Johnson will lead the new adaptation of ‘Kindred’.

FX Productions ordered a pilot in March 2021, which Janicza Bravo directed. The series will star Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, Gayle Rankin, Austin Smith, and newcomer Mallori Johnson as Dana.

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The series will be produced by Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel’s Protozoa Pictures.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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