A Sense of Doubt blog post #1869 - Hulu has ordered a pilot for Binti
This material was not going to be the post for today, but then material presents itself, even though the news broke back in January, and I just seeing it now. Hey, I am busy!
I teach Binti at all of my schools. I love this book, and Nnedi Okorafor has become one of my very favourite writers. And so, this news is thrilling, along with the news that her novel Who Fears Death is under development and she is developing Octavia Butler's Wild Seed.
SF (science fiction) news gets better all the time!!
If you have not read Binti and you are sheltering in place, GET ON THAT. It's among the very best things you can read.
https://www.tor.com/2020/01/14/hulu-nnedi-okorafor-binti-tv-series-development/
Hulu Has Ordered a Pilot for Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti Series, Penned by the Author
Andrew Liptak
Hulu has ordered an adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor’s Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Binti trilogy, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Okorafor will pen the pilot episode along with Stacy Osei-Kuffour, who wrote for HBO’s Watchmen and Hulu’s PEN15.
Okorafor first published Binti in 2015 through Tor.com Publishing. The novella follows a young Himba woman who is accepted into an interstellar university, Oomza Uni. While traveling to the university, her ship is attacked by a jellyfish-like alien called the Meduse, and Binti is forced to try and broker a truce with them in order to survive.
Finally, I can be public about it!
We are adapting Binti into a TV series at @hulu. I’m co-writing the pilot with @StacyAmma (HBO's Watchmen). #Africanfuturism #Bintihollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/bint…
Binti earned considerable acclaim after its release, earning Okorafor the 2016 Hugo and Nebula awards for Best Novella, as well as the British Fantasy and Locus awards. In 2017, she published a sequel, Binti: Home, and in 2018, Binti: The Night Masquerade, which won the 2019 Hugo for Best Novella. Okorafor has since published an omnibus edition that includes all three novellas, as well as a new story, Binti: Sacred Fire.
Media Res, the production company launched by HBO executive Michael Ellenberg, optioned the title. The book is the latest of Okorafor’s that’s set to be adapted for television: she’s working with HBO to develop a series based on her novel Who Fears Death. She’s also writing the script for a series based on Octavia Butler’s novel Wild Seed for Amazon Prime Video.
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