The first book in Octavia E. Butler‘s Lilith’s Brood collection, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning 1987 novel Dawn is headed to the small screen via Amazon Studios, MACRO Television Studios and Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Filmworks, Deadline reports today.
Victoria Mahoney (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) will adapt and direct the pilot.
In Dawn…
“Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth — the last stage of the planet’s final war. Hundreds of years later Lilith awakes, deep in the hold of a massive alien spacecraft piloted by the Oankali — who arrived just in time to save humanity from extinction. They have kept Lilith and other survivors asleep for centuries, as they learned whatever they could about Earth. Now it is time for Lilith to lead them back to her home world, but life among the Oankali on the newly resettled planet will be nothing like it was before.”
