‘Children of Blood and Bone’ gets Nigerian film director

A Nigerian-American filmmaker, Rick Famuyiwa, has been made director of the film adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s ‘Children of Blood and Bone’. Famuyiwa, once attached to DC’s upcoming ‘The Flash’, is best-known for his coming-of-age critical hit, ‘Dope’. Several of his films focus on the Black experience in America, including ‘The Wood’ and ‘Brown Sugar’ The […]

A Nigerian-American filmmaker, Rick Famuyiwa, has been made director of the film adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s ‘Children of Blood and Bone’.

Famuyiwa, once attached to DC’s upcoming ‘The Flash’, is best-known for his coming-of-age critical hit, ‘Dope’. Several of his films focus on the Black experience in America, including ‘The Wood’ and ‘Brown Sugar’

The New York Times bestselling young adult novel is the first in a trilogy written by Nigerian-American author Tomi Adeyemi. It was published in March 2018 and the film rights were sold before the book even hit bookshelves. The second instalment, ‘Children of Virtue and Vengeance’, is set for release this June.

‘Children of Blood and Bone’ is a Nigeria inspired fantasy epic that takes place in the once magical land of Orisha. Zelie Adebola has grown up in a land very different from the one in which her parents were raised, witnessing her mother’s death, as well as that of the other maji, due to a royal decree from the king. Adeyemi was 23 when the rights sold for seven figures after she pitched the book as an ‘African Last Airbender’ and ‘Black Panther with magic’