I then worked on writing the pilot script for probably 18 months to really get that perfect. And I sold the rights to Sister Pictures, who really-they were just incredibly impressive, incredibly ambitious for the show.
I had a bidding war for the rights before it was published, so I thought, Well, this has got a good chance of becoming something, surely. I had had a very good experience working on the movie Disobedience, which is based on my novel, and so I went in with high hopes, which indeed have been met by the show. It’s a very interesting process, and particularly, nobody expected the global pandemic, so that certainly threw a little spanner in there. What preconceptions did you have going in that you ultimately had to let go of? Variety // Getty Images Tell me about the process of developing this series.
Naomi Alderman at the premiere of The Power. and the election of President Donald Trump in the U.S.Īs The Power makes its second wave in the form of a TV series, which dropped its season 1 finale last night, Alderman spoke with about the challenges of adapting a story as the world changes her hopes for a second season and why she needed seven years to finish her next book, The Future. In particular, the manner in which Alderman reimagined women as the “dominant sex”-without stooping to the oversimplification and myopia of the girlboss era-spoke to an enflamed imagination felt across the country (and the globe) after Brexit in Alderman’s native U.K. The book, first published in 2016, was eventually named one of the “10 Best Books of 2017” by The New York Times for its speculative prowess. For others, it’s leverage-a means with which to reshape long-standing hierarchies and elevate their sex (and, depending on their motives, themselves). For some, this inexplicable power is a torment. In the Amazon Prime Video series The Power, adapted from Naomi Alderman’s novel of the same name, the status of women in society is forever shifted when electricity begins to bloom beneath their fingertips.
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