‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf:’ Michael B. Jordan Adapting “African Game Of Thrones”
By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 7, 2019 3:00 pm EST
The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Jordan is set to produce an adaptation of Black Leopard, Red Wolf, which follows a man named Tracker as he encounters giants, necromancers, witches, and shapeshifters on his quest to find a kidnapped boy in a fantastical Africa. The book just hit shelves Tuesday, but has already gained high-profile fans like Neil Gaiman.
Here is the book synopsis for Black Leopard, Red Wolf:
The first in a trilogy of books that James, who wrote the acclaimed A Brief History of Seven Killings, Black Leopard, Red Wolf has been compared to Game of Thrones — which makes Jordan’s attachment to the project all the more fitting, since those comparisons were also made with Black Panther, in which Jordan was a breakout star.
Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: “He has a nose,” people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard. As Tracker follows the boy’s scent–from one ancient city to another; into dense forests and across deep rivers–he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles to survive, Tracker starts to wonder: Who, really, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is telling the truth, and who is lying?
