Everything we know about the tv adaption of Octavia E. Butler's acclaimed sci-fi novel, Kindred.
was a real game-changer for TV and I was curious how working on that series influenced what you were able to do here? while I was in that room. And if there's a book I love as much, if not more than. So, I was definitely hyped. I was very excited to be working on both those things. For me, they were opportunities to really immerse yourself in the minds of someone you admire as a creator. And that was definitely the joy of that.
I felt like that if I took one thing away from that experience, it was this idea that I don't need to make a beat for beat, word-perfect carbon copy of the book. But actually, this is an opportunity to try to put it in conversation with the present tense and honor the ideas and see what ideas have legs.
The biggest is by far just how everything comes out of this need to place it in the near present. So, everything else, all the other changes are kind of a direct result of that. And that was huge because it required me to really sift through every detail of the book and try to find its analog and the world that they live in. It felt important to me because I didn't want to create a museum piece or a thing that people felt they could hold at a distance while viewing.
It was a bit of an aha moment. And I think that oddly, it was one of those things when I stumbled upon it, I was like,"Oh, this makes so much sense." And I just kind of went with it. There were versions early on in development where I tried to really hue super closely to the book. But the truth is, a novel written in the first person and a television show are just very different forms.
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