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# HBO Max is adapting Fledgling, Octavia Butler’s vampire novel
- URL: https://www.andrewliptak.com/octavia-butler-hbo-max-fledgling-adaptation-pilot-order/
- Published: 2021-07-29T04:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-06-22T15:08:40.000Z
- Author: Andrew Liptak
- Tags: News, Streaming Services, Television

It’s been quite the July for Octavia Butler. Earlier this week, [word broke](https://www.andrewliptak.com/a24-is-adapting-octavia-butlers-parable-of-the-sower/) that A24 was adapting her novel *Parable of the Sower* as a film, while earlier this month, FX/Hulu’s adaptation of *Kindred* tapped Janicza Bravo to direct Mallori Johnson as lead role of Dana Franklin in the pilot.

[Today brings word of *another* Butler adaptation in the works](https://deadline.com/2021/07/sonya-winton-odamtten-jonathan-i-kidd-hbo-pilot-series-adaptation-octavia-butlers-fledgling-issa-rae-j-j-abrams-1234801466/?fbclid=IwAR3k4FBLzHhjzMEESLhbpMoPYpm7XLrzSaevyMWJtH803DqouVaJnKWq%5Fzo&ref=andrewliptak.com): HBO Max is adapting her vampire novel *Fledgling* for a series.

The news comes via *Deadline*, which says that HBO Max has ordered a pilot script for the project from Sonya Winton-Odamtten and Jonathan I. Kidd, who were writers and producers on the network’s recent series, *Lovecraft Country*. Issa Rae and J.J. Abrams will serve as executive producers on the project. A pilot order doesn’t necessarily mean that a series will get made, but there’s been considerable growing interest in Butler’s works in recent years from readers and Hollywood alike.

*Fledgling* was Butler’s final novel before her death in 2006: It follows the story of a woman named Shori Matthews, which Nisi Shawl described last year as Butler’s attempt at a “frivolous romp, light and frothy,” in the style of the vampire romances from the likes of Laurell K. Hamilton, one that was “a little more scientifically rigorous. A little more Black.”

The pilot joins a growing number of Butler adaptations in the works. In addition to the recently-announced projects, there’s also an adaptation of *Wild Seed* coming from Nnedi Okorafor, while Ava DuVernay is working with Amazon Studios on an adaptation of *Dawn*.