AMC Studios Snags Rights to Rebecca Roanhorse’s Black Sun
AMC Studios has snagged the rights to Rebecca Roanhorse’s pre-Columbian fantasy saga Black Sun. The show is being adapted for TV with Roanhorse and The Walking Dead showrunner Angela Kang executive producing. Black Sun is the first fantasy novel in a new series inspired by the civilizations of the Americas before the arrival of Europeans. The second book of the series Fevered Star is coming out in April 2022.
Maia Kobabe, Author of One of the Most Banned Books in the US, Addresses Controversy
Maia Kobabe’s award-winning book Gender Queer: A Memoir is currently one of the most banned books in the United States, and now the author is speaking out about the controversy. The 2019 novel is a fully-illustrated book that tells Kobabe’s story from adolescence to adulthood, confronting the confusion of adolescent and the difficulties of being nonbinary in a world that sees gender as man and woman. Gender Queer has been challenged and/or removed in schools across at least 11 states. While Kobabe agrees that some of the illustrations in the book might not be appropriate for elementary school aged students, the author argues that the illustrations are “integral” to showing readers an experience growing up outside of cisgender and heterosexual norms. “It’s very hard to hear people say ‘This book is not appropriate to young people’ when it’s like, I was a young person for whom this book would have been not only appropriate, but so, so necessary,” Kobabe said. “There are a lot of people who are questioning their gender, questioning their sexuality and having a real hard time finding honest accounts of somebody else on the same journey. There are people for whom this is vital and for whom this could maybe even be lifesaving.” Kobabe went on to tell other queer and non-binary authors who are afraid of their work being challenged: “Don’t let this make you afraid.”
Steven Moffat Gives Us A Glimpse into His Adaptation of The Time Traveler’s Wife
A new adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife is coming to HBO and HBO Max in 2022. While you wait for the new show to come out, director Steven Moffat is giving fans a glimpse into his adaptation of the beloved novel. Steven Moffat is probably best-known for his work as the showrunner, writer, and executive producer of the television series Doctor Who. He even based a Doctor Who episode, “The Girl in the Fireplace,” on The Time Traveler’s Wife. As a fan of the novel, how does he think other fans will feel about the upcoming TV series? Moffat says, “I was watching it this morning and wondering what an absolute purist would make of this… It tells the same story. I’m not going to change that. Sometimes, you see an adaptation of a book, and it just feels as though you chopped up the book into six hours and fed it through. I don’t think that honors the original. You’ve got to really make it a beast that survives in its new environment, and television is a different experience from a novel. The thing I’ve always been very keen to say is, you’re not correcting it, you’re not fixing what was once wrong. You are adapting it to a new landscape; that’s all you’re doing. Hopefully, the television show feels the same as reading the book.” You can check out the rest of his interview and an exclusive image from the tv show here.