TV network FX has ordered a pilot episode based on Octavia E. Butler's book Kindred, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Courtney Lee-Mithcell will write the pilot will serve as an executive producer. 'Since my first encounter with the novel nearly two decades ago, there have been few, if any, books and even fewer authors who have meant as much to me as Kindred and Octavia Butler,' Jacobs-Jenkins to THR. 'It has been the highlight and honor of my career thus far to try and finally bring this timeless story to life.' Kindred tells the story of a […]

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