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Making A Movie For The Ten Thousand Doors of January

30 Day Blogging Challenge

PROMPT July 23rd
You've been given a full budget and creative license to bring a book you read to film. What book would you pick and who would you cast as the characters? If you choose a book with an existing movie adaptation, what changes would you make?

I would love to do the book I am currently reading - The Ten Thousand Doors of January, but I am not finished reading it yet. I love this book and its message - that doors open to world and allow for change. The bad guys are the white establishment that wants to close the doors and keep this world unchanged. They want to hold on to their privilege and status. They want the beautiful, priceless things of the other worlds, but they do not want any of the change that might leak in through the doors.

Other worlds are very different - one allows a black girl child to escape the colonization of the area she was born to... the one that steals her family's land and reduces them to the 'help'. She escapes to a world where she is among Amazonian Women who have wives and husbands. Where she is a warrior. Her name is Jane and she follows January's father back to his world and her door is destroyed trapping her back in this world. January's father hires her to protect his daughter.

January is a cinnamon child with a Black father (from the world of Nin where he is a scholar) and wheat haired mother with freckles. Who is one of Mr. Locke's 'priceless' items.... until she becomes too old to be seen and not heard.

Who would I chose - strong Black actors. Dayo Okeniyi as Julian (January's father) and Amandla Stenberg as January.
For Jane - Latarsha Rose
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3912883/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3964350/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1127289/
January's mother could be... could I use creative license and use a younger Jane Seymour?
January's boyhood friend, Samuel, who runs away with them would be... Davide Giordano
https://www.cdastudiodinardo.com/artista_3322_1_1_Davide_Giordano.htm
And some pastey white guys like Woody Harrelson with long hair as Havermeyer and Donald Sutherland as Mr. Locke.