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She is faced with a choice: adapt or die. Lilith Iyapo, a black woman, is the first to be awakened and is chosen to lead her people into an uncertain future. 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. This will be the first of Butler’s works to be developed for television. Shadow & Act exclusively broke the news exclusively in 2015 that Dawn was in development as a TV series, in an interview with Allen Bain.Īva DuVernay (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) Victoria Mahoney (Francois Durand/Getty Images) King’s Macro Ventures and acclaimed director/writer Victoria Mahoney for a television adaptation of Octavia Butler’s science-fiction novel, Dawn.

This time, she’s teaming up with Charles D. It was announced Wednesday that the filmmaker has another stellar project on the way.
