Ava DuVernay is adapting Tui T. Sutherland’s dragon fantasy opus Wings Of Fireplace for TV
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Ava DuVernay is now including TV animation to the wide range of genres and types she’s dealt with over time, with Deadline reporting that the A Wrinkle In Time director has simply signed on to supply a cartoon adaptation of Tui T. Sutherland’s Wings Of Fireplace for Warner Bros. TV. Sutherland’s 15-novels-and-counting YA sequence facilities on a sequence of younger dragons and the assorted prophecies that management and dictate their fire-breathing, wings-of-said-fire-having lives.
DuVernay is a prolific TV producer, in fact, having created Queen Sugar over on OWN, in addition to plenty of different miniseries and documentary initiatives. She’s additionally a famous style fanatic; we are able to solely assume her work on the purported New Gods film with D.C. has ready her to tackle a pantheon of dragons that features names like “Morrowseer,” “Moonwatcher,” and “Princess Tsunami.” DuVernay is growing the sequence at Warner Bros. Animation, after what was reportedly a heated and high-number bidding battle to amass the rights to the bestselling books, that are presently accessible in 16 languages worldwide.
[Be aware: We tried to dig up a video exhibiting a number of the depths of WoF fandom on-line, however we in a short time hit a GIF of Angela Lansbury clutching jail bars behind the the textual content “Prickle within the Jail of the Stronghold,” and determined that some waters are simply too rattling deep for wading in.]
The purpose, presumably, is to show this into one thing with a little bit of that good status warmth to it, all the higher to attract in not simply the children who already determine themselves as MudWings or members of the Talons Of Peace, and so on., however their mother and father, too. There’s no phrase but on the place the sequence will land—between The CW and its varied HBO manufacturers, WarnerMedia isn’t hurting for choices—however DuVernay’s identify on the undertaking will presumably assist it discover its correct roost.
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