This morning, Paramount released the first trailer children of blood and boneHis exhilarating adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s best-selling young adult novel.
Set to a Beyoncé soundtrack and teasing a killer line-up of our best living actors – including Viola Davis, Regina King, Amandla Stenberg, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Idris Elba and Cynthia Erivo – the trailer depicts the lush, fantastical kingdom of Orisha, where the novel is set.
As in the book, it feels like we are following a heroine’s journey. Zelie Adebola (Thuso Mbedu) is the Chosen One, tasked with bringing magic back to her world after a cruel king kills her mother.
The novel was extremely successful, praised for its epic scale and brilliant imagination against a pan-African backdrop. And if the following things are considered, then the film can also happen.
However, writer Tomi Adeyemi has been vocal about her Rejection of this adaptation.
in one emotional tiktok Released yesterday, Adeyemi told fans that adapting her book for the screen was “the worst thing (she) ever had to go through.” He has previously mentioned friction with stars and colleagues on the creative team – perhaps worryingly so. Colorism in the casting pool.
In the same TikTok, she put the kibosh on a future collab and announced her intention Never talk about the project again.
As vulture informed This Morning, Adeyemi is still credited as a co-screenwriter on the film with director Gina Prince-Bythewood. But in another set of Instagram posts released earlier this month, Adeyemi sent true fans back to her print miter.
“From this point on, if you want to support me,” she wrote, “you can buy any version of Trilogy At a local independent children’s bookstore.”
