Amazon teams with Viola Davis on Wild Seed African sci-fi drama series

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Amazon and Davis are developing a TV adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's Wild Seed, the first book in her acclaimed Patternist sci-fi series. According to Deadline, "Wild Seed is a love (and hate) story of two African immortals who travel the ages from pre-Colonial West Africa to the far, far future. Doro, a killer who uses his power to breed people like livestock, encounters Anyanwu, a healer who forces him to reassess his millennia of cruel behavior: for centuries, their personal battles change the course of our world as they struggle against the backdrop of time — master vs slave, man vs woman, killer vs healer."