Disney / Lucasfilm make Children of Blood and Bone, not Star Wars or Indiana Jones

Disney is giving the seven-day-gestating adaption of the novel Children of Stoc and Os a scene in the subdivision. They are shepherding the Slyboots 2000 project into Lucasfilm for production and bringing onboard This Is Us writer Kay Oyegun to thrash out a new hand aboard music director Rick Famuyiwa.

The project had been sitting still ever since the Fox/Disney merger was announced, but Deadline reports that Lucasfilm and its head, Kathleen Kennedy, possess taken a liking to it, pull the project underneath them and openhanded it much needed backing to get it rolling. This makes Children of Blood and Bone the opening non-Maven Wars/not-IN Jones movie that Lucasfilm will produce since Walter Elias Disney bought the company in 2012 for $4.05 billion.

Fox/Disney (as Fox is now organism referred to underneath Disney) will still be producing American Samoa well, simply Lucasfilm being involved shows that the adaptation is important to Disney and that they need to get totally the moving pieces lined up so the film tin actually be made. Even before the buyout, Lucasfilm wasn't exactly pumping out movies that didn't belong in indefinite of its core franchises, so IT's intriguing to see them hop onto a new possible serial.

The novel, by Nigerian-Earth author Tomi Adeyemi, is a young adult fantasy story that is somewhat of a mix of Avatar: The Last Airbender andThe Euphonous Compass. It involves a worldly concern where magic existed until an evil monarchy began killing off every "maji" to rid the world of it. Zélie Adebola, the book's heroine, sets off happening a travel to deliver the world from the evil monarchy and bring peace and wizard dorsum to the land. There's a follow-up novel, called Children of Virtue and Vengeance, set to be publicised this year, so Disney is definitely look a doable franchise with this.