'Wednesday' On Netflix: The Release Date Revealed & More You Need To Know 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. “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. Search Hollywood Life Search Trending Navigation TrendingĪyana Gray is the author of the ‘Beasts of Prey’ series.

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