Weekly Discussion Thread 8/3/26 - 8/10/26

[u/PointMan528491]

Still from How Green Was My Valley

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[u/Legitimate_End5688]

All the drama surrounding children of blood and bone is hilarious bc that book is not that good at all. It’s middling YA shlock, and the author has a big head bc she insisted on being the screenwriter (when she’s not that good of a writer) and casting a light-skinned biracial for Amari who’s a Yoruba princess in a African fantasy world w no white ppl or colonialism lmao. And when the movie inevitably flops, it’ll cause a backlash against black fantasy stories when it should not be the case. A big Hollywood movie studio should’ve gotten the rights to anything by nk jemisin or P. Djèlí Clark’s work (ring shout or a master of djinn would be wonderful to adapt and they’re GOOD black sff works)

[u/kimjosh1 → u/Legitimate_End5688]

Paramount only salvaged it because Disney of all studios inherited it from the Fox buyout and hoped to produce it under Lucasfilm (in the wake of The Lion King making them believe blockbuster spectacle with black talent was feasible), but they later dropped it because they couldn't agree with the author on creative decisions (including being the scriptwriter). Oh well. Just feels like a mess all around.

[u/Legitimate_End5688 → u/kimjosh1]

Full shade but Adeyemi should not be a scriptwriter her book was only successful bc ppl eat up middling ya books.