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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, …

‘Children of Blood and Bone’ Movie Trailer Reveals All-Star Cast

‘Children of Blood and Bone’ Movie Trailer Reveals All-Star Cast

Published by Daniella Wilson

The first trailer for the much-anticipated big screen adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi‘s bestselling novel Children of Blood and Bone has been revealed, and in it we get a proper look at the all-star cast in the Africa-set fantasy drama. Gina Prince-Bythewood‘s film stars a veritable Who’s Who of Black British and American actors including Idris Elba, Cynthia Erivo, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Regina King, Damson Idris, Lashana Lynch, Amandla Stenberg, Tosin Cole, Viola Davis and the lead of the film, South African actress Thuso Mbedu. Children of Blood and Bone is based on Nigerian-American writer Adeyemi’s 2018 debut novel, and the first book in her Legacy of Orïsha trilogy, which became a The New York Times bestseller. Set in an alternate history pre-colonial West Africa, the book follows the story of Zélie Adebola (Mbedu) as she attempts to restore magic to the kingdom of Orïsha, following brutal oppresion by the cruel and ruthless King Saran (Ejiofor). In the clip, set to excerpts of Beyonce’s 2022 song “Energy,” we see Mbedu’s Zélie come-of-age to bring magic back to …