photo courtesy of Bradley
It appears lauded science fiction writer Octavia Butler is about to get her due in the film world. A24 has picked up the rights to Butler’s arguably best known novel, Parable of the Sower, originally published in 1993. It was the first of two books to chronicle a near-future Los Angeles devastated by societal collapse, and a teenager with a unique gift who must gather the remnants of humanity together to survive.
Chlotrudis is excited to read that Garrett Bradley, director of the Chlotrudis Award-winning Documentary, TIME, has been set to direct Sower, and it will be her first feature narrative. Her newly released docuseries Naomi Osaka recently premiered on Netflix.
Sower is not the first of Butler’s works to be optioned for the screen. FX has ordered a pilot for KINDRED, an adaptation of her 1979 novel of the same name which centers on a young Black woman who is pulled back and forth between the present and the days of 19th century slavery. Butler’s novels Dawn and Wild Seed are also in various stages of development as well.