“There’s been a long-standing, heartfelt desire to see Ms. Mahoney adds that interest in material like “Dawn” - Octavia Butler’s 1987 science-fiction novel about an African-American woman who works with aliens to resurrect the human race 250 years after a nuclear war - hasn’t suddenly manifested. “This is the first occasion in history where audiences have public platforms to vocalize their interests, and disinterests,” Mahoney says. Mahoney - who made history in 2019 when she became the first woman (and the first black woman) to direct a “Star Wars” film - chalks the boom of black creators making genre projects up to “good ole fashioned, supply and demand.” Abrams’ Bad Robot) launching later this year on HBO, and the upcoming “Dawn” adaptation from “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s” Victoria Mahoney, Ava DuVernay and Macro‘s Charles D. Others are Jordan Peele’s “genre-bending” dark fantasy, horror series “Lovecraft Country” (co-produced with J.J. “Utopia Falls” is just one in a growing list of genre programming from black creatives. It’s not just a simple political revolution.” “This show is really about a cultural revolution in the future. “ choosing examples that are actually stripping the culture out of what we’re doing,” he explains. While Thorne notes some critics have described the series as “’The Hunger Games’ meets ‘Step-Up’ meets ‘America’s Got Talent,’” he believes those descriptions miss the point. “ what was interesting to me, is that even though they didn’t know what to make of it, everybody wanted to understand more.”Īnd the Exemplar competition is just the beginning for Thorne’s story - which is now streaming on Hulu - as the series takes a pivotal turn when a couple of the teen contestants stumble upon a hidden warehouse called “The Archive” and discover the lost art of hip-hop music, introduced by none other than the voice of Snoop Dogg. “People definitely looked at me weird when I first threw it out there a few years ago, just this idea of science fiction and hip-hop,” Thorne tells Variety. Thorne pitched a sci-fi hip-hop series about a group of teens living in a dystopian future and battling in a performing arts competition called the Exemplar, he knew the concept was an unusual one.
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