I want to make sure that diversity isn’t treated as a trend, as something to jump on and then do for a little while, and then move on to the next exciting fashionable thing. I mean, even in my lifetime, I’m turning 30 next year, and I’m proud to have seen so much progress in such a short amount of time,” Ayana told HollywoodLife. While there have been breakthroughs, Ayana wants to keep pushing forward with even more diverse authors and stories.
I just haven’t found them.”Īyana also weighed in on the state of diverse storytelling in the publishing industry.
I have pictures in my head of it’d be really cool to have this person somehow, but it’s also just as exciting to think about maybe there’s the perfect Koffi and Ekon out there. Because at one point, the two people I just named - Giveon and Letitia - were also new up-and-coming talents, and someone gave them a shot. However, Ayana pointed out that “so many people have given me a shot as a previously unheard of new name in publishing, and it would be really cool to be able to do the same thing on the acting side and bring in new, undiscovered Black talent for Beasts of Prey. If he ever wanted to have a foray into acting, we would love to snag him.” “He’s not necessarily an actor to my knowledge, but when I first saw Giveon, who is an R&B musician, I thought, ‘He looks so much like how I pictured Ekon in my head.’ It was really striking.
I think she’s probably rather busy at the moment,” Ayana revealed. But what about Ayana? Related Linkīrooks Atwood: 5 Things To Know About The ‘Hack My Home’ Host Letitia Wright in 2022. Now that the film is in the works, fans have started to bring up actors they’d like to see in the roles of Koffi and Ekon. Of course, I want to have an active role, and they’ve been really lovely about consulting even in the early stages. A lot of times I’m happy to defer to people when they’re working in their area of expertise. I do have a lot of trust in Clubhouse Pictures and Melody Cooper, who’s written this beautiful screenplay. Books are my first love, and that’s always where I’m going to feel most comfortable. When it comes to how hands-on she’s going to be with the film, Ayana said she’s “in the middle. I am an author first. I’ve gotten to look at the screenplay for Beasts of Prey, and it’s just hard to find words to describe how that feels to see your words converted into a new format. And then that happens and it’s truly surreal.
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“You’re just kind of hoping that a single one of your books will make it into the world, let alone three, and then a movie deal is just unthinkable really. “It’s really beyond my wildest dreams as an author,” Ayana told HollywoodLife. ‘Beasts of Ruin’ is Ayana Gray’s second novel in the ‘Beasts of Prey’ series. The 29-year-old has been blown away by the book’s response from fans and the streaming service. So that’s it all kind of came together in pieces.”Īyana’s first novel, Beasts of Prey, is being developed as a feature film by Netflix. And then I think about what characters could fit into that story. And then I think about what stories could not really fit into that world. That’s always where I start, with the world. I started to think about the world of Beasts of Prey. All of those things sort of came together in a really unique way.
There’s a very famous story about two man-eating lions in East Africa called Tsavo Man-Eaters that I always thought was a really chilling but very interesting story. “I studied abroad in Ghana and got the chance to really see Blackness in a new lens and that had a tremendous impact on me. “I took a course while I was a university student called political violence where we grappled a lot with ideas of good and evil and that really struck me,” Ayana said. The author noted that a “series of things” inspired the Beasts of Prey story. Ryan Murphy’s 'The Watcher': What To Know About Netflix Thriller With Jennifer Coolidge & Mia FarrowĪyana Gray is the author of the ‘Beasts of Prey’ series.
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