EXCLUSIVE: Octavia Butler’s novel Fledgling is getting a television adaptation at HBO.The WarnerMedia premium network has ordered a pilot script for the project from Lovecraft Country writers and co-EPs Sonya Winton-Odamtten and Jonathan I.
Kidd.The pair, who reupped their overall deal with HBO in December, are writing the adaptation with Issa Rae and J.J. Abrams among the exec producers.Fledgling is a sci-fi vampire novel that Butler, the first sci-fi writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, published via Grand Central Publishing in 2005, a year before her death.It is the story of an apparently amnesiac young girl whose alarmingly inhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified,
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