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Deadline, FX has ordered a pilot for an adaptation of Kindred, the landmark 1979 sci-fi novel from Octavia E. Butler about a Black woman who hops back and forth in time from her normal life in the ‘70s to a plantation in pre-Civil War Maryland—leading to mysteries and revelations about her own family, the realities of slavery in the United States, and how it all relates to modern life. The adaptation is coming from writer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, producers Courtney Lee-Mitchell, Joe Weisber...

The Sleep On Halloween night, participants of a sleep experiment must “survive real-life horrors as well as the ones unlocked deep within their minds” in the trailer for The Sleep. In the trailer for The Tangle, a woman is somehow discretely murdered in a future where clouds of airborne microdrones have made personal privacy impossible. Kindred Deadline reports FX has ordered a pilot for a series based on Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred from writer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Courtney Lee-Mit...

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