We’ve been waiting for this one. Octavia Butler’s 1993 dystopian novel Parable of the Sower is finally set for a film adaptation.
The eerily prescient story opens in 2024 and images a United States in which times are bad and getting worse. Climate change has made food and water scarce and expensive. Paying work is rare; company towns, sex work, and modern slavery are on the rise. The basic institutions of American life have eroded, and some have already broken.
After catastrophe strikes her neighborhood in 2026, main character Lauren and two of her friend...
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