{"id":80381,"date":"2017-08-09T16:07:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T16:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2017\/08\/09\/ava-duvernay-charles-d-kings-macro-victoria-mahoney-to-bring-octavia-e-butler-sci-fi-novel-dawn-to-tv\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T02:23:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T02:23:45","slug":"ava-duvernay-charles-d-kings-macro-victoria-mahoney-to-bring-octavia-e-butler-sci-fi-novel-dawn-to-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/ava-duvernay-charles-d-kings-macro-victoria-mahoney-to-bring-octavia-e-butler-sci-fi-novel-dawn-to-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Ava DuVernay, Charles D. King\u2019s Macro &#038; Victoria Mahoney To Bring Octavia E. Butler\u2019s Sci-Fi Novel \u2018Dawn\u2019 For TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ava DuVernay, Charles D. King\u2019s Macro &amp; Victoria Mahoney To Bring Octavia E. Butler\u2019s Sci-Fi Novel \u2018Dawn\u2019 For TV<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n<p>August 9, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2017\/08\/ava-duvernay-octavia-butler-dawn-tv-series-victoria-mahoney-macro-1202145539\/\">Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ava-DuVernay-Charles-King-and-Victoria-Mahoney.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-101222\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 171'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ava-DuVernay-Charles-King-and-Victoria-Mahoney-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2017\/08\/ava-duvernay-octavia-butler-dawn-tv-series-victoria-mahoney-macro-1202145539\/\">Deadline<\/a> is reporting that <strong>Ava DuVernay, Charles D. King\u2019s Macro<\/strong> and director-writer <strong>Victoria Mahoney<\/strong> are adapting <strong>Octavia E. Butler<\/strong>\u2019s classic 1987 science fiction novel <strong>Dawn<\/strong> for television.<\/p>\n<p>Mahoney will write the series about an African-American woman who works with aliens to resurrect the human race 250 years after a nuclear war.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Dawn-book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-medium wp-image-101224\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 184 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Dawn-book-184x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Dawn, after war has culminated in a nuclear apocalypse and the near extermination of the human race, the survivors are rescued by an alien species and kept in suspended animation on an Earth-like spaceship. Lilith Iyapo, a black woman, is the first to be awakened and is chosen to lead her people into an uncertain future. She is faced with a choice: adapt or die. But, what good is survival if it comes at the cost of humanity?<\/p>\n<p>Dawn is the first book in what has been called Butler\u2019s Lilith\u2019s Brood trilogy, which also includes 1988\u2019s <strong>Adulthood Rites<\/strong> and 1989\u2019s <strong>Imago<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>King and DuVernay will executive produced the Dawn series along with <strong>Kim Roth, Poppy Hanks, Allen Bain, Gary Pearl, Thomas L. Carter<\/strong> and <strong>Teddy Smith<\/strong>. King\u2019s media company Macro, Forward Movement, Oil &amp; Cattle and Bainframe will produce.<\/p>\n<p>The site states that the estate of Butler, who died in 2006, was represented in this deal by the agent for the estate, Merrilee Heifetz of Writers House, LLC, with Gary Pearl.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Octavia-Butler-pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-101225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 169'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Octavia-Butler-pic-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A prolific author who used sci-fi to address issues of race, gender and hierarchy, among others, Butler in 1995 was the first writer in the genre to be awarded the MacArthur Fellowship aka the Genius Grant.\u00a0She also won two Hugo Awards, two Nebula Awards and the PEN Lifetime Achievement Award.\u00a0 Butler died in 2006 and was posthumously inducted into The Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>DuVernay is repped by CAA and Del, Shaw. Mahoney is repped by Verve, the Mission Entertainment and Hirsch Wallerstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ava DuVernay, Charles D. King\u2019s Macro &amp; Victoria Mahoney To Bring Octavia E. Butler\u2019s Sci-Fi Novel \u2018Dawn\u2019 For TVPosted by Wilson Morales August 9, 2017 Source: Deadline Deadline is reporting that Ava DuVernay, Charles D. King\u2019s Macro and director-writer Victoria Mahoney are adapting Octavia E. Butler\u2019s classic 1987 science fiction novel Dawn for television. 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