Anika Noni Rose To Produce Daniel José Older’s Bestselling YA Fantasy Series ShadowshaperPosted by Wilson Morales
April 27, 2017
Source: Deadline
Deadline is reporting that Anika Noni Rose, through her production company Roaring Virgin Productions, has picked the TV and film rights to Shadowshaper, Daniel José Older’s bestselling YA fantasy series.
Shadowshaper, published in 2015 by Arthur A. Levine Books and named a New York Times Notable Book of that year, introduced Sierra Santiago, who lives in Brooklyn and discovers shadowshaping, a magic that infuses ancestral spirits into paintings, music, and stories. But someone is killing the shadowshapers one by one — and the killer believes Sierra is hiding their greatest secret. A second book in the Shadowshaper Cypher series, Shadowhouse Fall, is due out in September.
“Shadowshaper was a book I couldn’t put down,” said Rose. “At a time when so many are feeling powerless, Sierra Santiago is a young Afro-Latina heroine who finds her power within herself. Through a strong spiritual connection to her ancestors, the discovery of the magic living in her art, and with the help of some amazing friends, she saves her family, and her Brooklyn neighborhood from certain destruction. A face and culture we rarely see on screen; she is the heroine we’ve been searching for, only to find she lives right next door.”
Rose, a Tony winner for Caroline, Or Change, just wrapped filming Assassination Nation and will next on the screen in Warner Bros’ Everything, Everything by director Stella Maghie. She recently finished the season to the BET series The Quad and is expected to reprise her recurring role on Starz’s hit series Power.
