Zola director Janicza Bravo will direct and function govt producer on the FX pilot for Kindred—an adaptation of the novel written by prolific science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler.

According to Deadline, the undertaking originates from Watchmen writers Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Courtney Lee-Mitchell, in collaboration with Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures. Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields (writers and producers of the FX present The Americans) will even produce Kindred, with newcomer actress Mallori Johnson set to star.

The e-book offered over a million copies and has seen a resurgence in curiosity and recognition for the reason that novel was first printed in 1979. Bravo talks in regards to the influence the e-book had on her life after studying it in faculty.

“I first read Kindred 20 years ago,” stated Bravo. “I was in college. I hadn’t ever seen myself in a world like that. And certainly not at its center. What might seem like only a portrait of an invisible woman is also a potent embrace of our relationship to history and how it can bring us closer to our future. After what felt like losing over a year of the life I had come to know so well, an opportunity to direct an adaptation of this specific text was a win. On top of that, getting to partner with Branden is something I’d been wanting for quite some time.”

Kindred is a time-travel story that follows Dana, a younger Black girl who simply arrived in Los Angeles. Once she settles into her new house, she is all of a sudden transported backwards and forwards between modern-day LA and a Nineteenth-century plantation that her household lineage has a connection to.

Kindred was tailored into a graphic novel by Damian Duffy and John Jennings. The e-book received the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium.

Production on the pilot is on observe to start out this September.

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