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FX Nabs Adaptation of Octavia E. Butler s Kindred
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The Disney-owned cabler has ordered a pilot based on the influential novel, with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins writing the script.
FX is adapting one of the most influential novels of the past 50 years.
The Disney-owned cable network has ordered a pilot for
Kindred, based on the book by Octavia E. Butler. Playwright and
Watchmen consulting producer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is writing the script and will executive produce Courtney Lee-Mitchell, who holds rights to the book, Darren Aronofsky (via his Protozoa Pictures) and
The Americans creators Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields. FX Productions is the studio.