‘The Walking Dead’ showrunner to adapt Rebecca Roanhorse’s ‘Black Sun’
Black Sun will be adapted into a TV series by The Walking Dead showrunner Angela Kang for AMC Studios.Released in October 2020, the fantasy novel is inspired by the pre-Columbian empires of the Americas and tells a story of “celestial prophecies, political intrigue and forbidden magic”.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Roanhorse will executive produce the project alongside Kang, who has served as showrunner on The Walking Dead since the show’s ninth season.Black Sun is the first novel in the author’s Between Earth and Sky series, with the follow-up, Fevered Star, due to be released in April 2022.Her previous works include Trail Of Lightning and sequel Storm Of Locusts, Star Wars: Resistance Reborn and Race To The Sun.