Children Of Blood And Bone author Tomi Adeyemi says she won't watch film adaptation

“I still don’t plan to watch it, but it’s not really for me to watch,” the author says in an interview published this weekend in The Guardian. When asked if she would ever let another one of her novels be adapted for the big screen again, she just says, “Never.” (The rights to Children Of Blood And Bone were optioned before its 2018 publication; it’s not immediately clear whether the rights to either follow up novel have already been purchased.) When asked about the casting controversy, Adeyemi just says, “With a film, the director makes every decision. With my book I can talk about every choice down to the commas, because that’s truly in my hands. So there’s nothing for me to add, other than the clarity that these aren’t my choices.” This is vague enough to not really help elucidate anything, but it’s worth mentioning that Gina Prince-Bythewood, the director of the film, co-wrote the screenplay with Adeyemi, so we could guess there was at least some collaboration going on.