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jogoso2014 t1_ivi5b9w wrote

I’m excited.

Would love to see Wild Seed too.

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[deleted] OP t1_ivi69u4 wrote

Maybe we're entering an era of Octavia Butler adaptations? A24 has the rights to The Parable of the Sower and supposedly is working on producing a movie.

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Nandi_La t1_ivid12o wrote

whaaat! That's fucking amazing, their films are always so good! I hope they do the work justice

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horseren0ir t1_ivis5vi wrote

What’s that one about?

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blankbox11 t1_ivjj9r2 wrote

Edit: this is a description Wild Seed not Parable of the Sower

It’s about the relationship between two superpowered if I remember correctly ancient beings over centuries and across two continents. If, they ever adapt it, it’s going to be a really hard watch. If I’m being completely honest it is thorny and ugly in ways that I don’t think Hollywood would like, and doubt they would try to adapt it without radically changing it first.

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doegred t1_ivliwzl wrote

That's Wild Seed, not Parable, right? (Though confusingly the latter has Earthseed in it.)

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Necessary-Image-6386 t1_ivissxf wrote

Hard to describe Wild Seed. A body changing woman in 18th century Africa comes to the States. Wait I forgot

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jogoso2014 t1_ivk4gt2 wrote

It’s part of a series but it’s best to think of it as an anthology as the series covers centuries.

The first book is about two beings with different powers getting together and forming essentially a community and super race.

One of them is clearly a bad guy and the power is cool and scary.

What I love about it, along with Kindred, is that they both change the perspective on the slave narrative from what we typically see.

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horseren0ir t1_ivltpeq wrote

Change it to what?

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jogoso2014 t1_ivm5fzf wrote

For example, I grew up on a narrative of Thomas Jefferson being in love with his slave Sally Henming and that romance tends to crossover to to other interracial slave based relationships.

Wild Seed likewise shows what happens when black people actually have the power to change a systemic circumstance.

It’s interesting to see slavery in the context of fantasy or sci-if and Butler makes it feel natural.

Underground Railroad does a great job at it too but that story has nothing to do Butler.

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nick281051 t1_ivj6brf wrote

Last I remember hearing is that it is being adapted. This was from an NPR throughline episode maybe from 2019 though. No idea if it's gone anywhere since. Love love love that series, it was the first Octavia Butler book I read

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holymojo96 t1_ivmc3v1 wrote

Dawn is my personal favorite of hers but it would be pretty fucked up in a visual medium so I don’t think that’s happening anytime soon lol

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jogoso2014 t1_ivmgryg wrote

I think it would work as a combo with Adulthood Rights Dawn would come across as slow even though reading it is fascinating to me) but the ship would be tough to explain.

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Ozlin t1_ivmfve7 wrote

I love Wild Seed. I recently finished Mind of My Mind, the chronologically second book of the series and also loved that one. I'm hoping to read the whole series. It reminds me a lot of X-Men in a way, if X-Men started a lot darker. Doro reminds me of Shadow King in Legion. Would also love to see it adapted, it could make a good TV series.

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