The movie adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi's debut YA novel, Children of Blood and Bone, is officially on the horizon. After years in the making, it looks like the literary phenomenon is finally shaping up to go from paper to screen, with an official cast announcement for the upcoming movie.

Lauded for its complex world-building, which has often been likened to Harry Potter and The Hunger Games , Children of Blood and Bone is inspired by Adeyemi's West African roots and merges fantastical elements with social commentary. “The first layer is this epic story, but on the second layer, there's this allegory for the modern Black experience,” Adeyemi told Jimmy Fallon in 2018.

Keep reading for everything we know so far about the Children of Blood and Bone movie.

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