All posts tagged: Lena Waithe

Children of Blood and Bone author says film adaptation left her ‘hyperventilating and sobbing’

Children of Blood and Bone author says film adaptation left her ‘hyperventilating and sobbing’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Children of Blood and Bone author Tomi Adeyemi has spoken out about her negative experience on the set of the film adaptation of her debut book. The award-winning, best-selling young adult romantic fantasy novel, published in 2018, is the first in Adeyemi’s Legacy of Orïsha trilogy. It tells the tale of the heroine Zélie Adebola as she attempts to restore magic to the kingdom of Orïsha after the ruling class suppresses the class of magic practitioners. In 2022, Paramount Pictures announced it had won a bidding war for the rights to adapt the book. The film, which features an ensemble cast of Amandla Stenberg, Damson Idris, Viola Davis, Cynthia Erivo, Idris Elba and Regina King, was directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood from a screenplay co-written by Adeyemi. Opening up about her time working on the film project in a new TikTok video, …

The Chi First Look Final Season Threaten Coldest Winter Ever

The Chi First Look Final Season Threaten Coldest Winter Ever

Published by Daniella Wilson

Paramount+ has dropped first look images for the eighth and final season of The Chi, and for a love letter by creator Lena Waithe to her hometown, death sure stalks Chicago. That was made clear to Jacob Latimore as Emmett when his mother, Jada Washington, played by Yolanda Ross, died in the season 7 finale after a battle with cancer. Then there was the shocking murder of Alicia Daniels Lafayette, played by Lynn Whitfield. Now it’s all to play for in the final season. In a first look image unveiled by Paramount+ on Tuesday, with Birgundi Baker as Kiesha by his side, Emmett and the rest of The Chi cast head toward their own farewell exits. “As The Chi enters its eighth and final season and its coldest winter ever, life or death choices must be made. The question becomes, who is willing to make them? Legacy, conflict, joy, and pain,” the series producers say in a logline. In another season eight image, loyalties and rivalries are apparently to be tested as Wendy Raquel Robinson as Riley, Baker as …