Very much on topic is this article I pulled off of the Sci-Fi Wire
web site (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/)
11.22 am ET, 7-Nov-97 Butler's Kindred Headed To Film
Kindred, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel by famed SF author
Octavia E. Butler, is headed for the silver screen courtesy of Def
Pictures and Polygram Filmed Entertainment, according to Variety. The
two film companies bought the adaptation of Butler's novel from
Nicholas Brandt and Bridget Blake-Wilson, with Brandt attached to the
project as director. Kindred is a time travel novel about a modern
black woman who is repeatedly drawn back to the 19th-century South by
her white, slave-owning ancestor.
Eventually the woman is faced with the choice of saving the man from
death, knowing that if she does so he will eventually enslave a
free-born black woman who will turn out to become her own
great-grandmother.
According to Variety, the reclusive Butler, who was the recipient of
a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, has rarely allowed her novels
to be optioned for film. Actress Talia Shire held the rights to
Kindred for eight years, but when she failed to renew them in 1996,
they were snapped up by Brandt. --Sci-Fi Wire
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