The TV series adaptation is in development at A24 with Idris Elba attached to executive produce and star as lead Okonkwo.
Elba will executive produce along with Gina Carter under their recently launched 22Summers production banner. David Oyelowo and Amanda N’Duka will executive produce via Yoruba Saxon. Ben Forkner, Dayo Ogunyemi and Achebe Masterworks also serve as executive producers. A24 is the studio.

Although the writing team has yet to be confirmed, Things Fall Apart, a cornerstone of African literature, tells the compelling story of Okonkwo, a proud and influential leader who faces an existential crisis as British colonizers disrupt the world he once knew. As his determination to hold on to tradition and power grows, his journey becomes one of tragedy, highlighting themes of change, resilience, and the painful clash between the old and the new.

First published in 1958, Things Fall Apart has been translated into over 60 languages and is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels ever written. The novel has earned numerous accolades, including the Nigerian National Merit Award and the Man Booker International Prize. It is the first instalment in Chinua Achebe’s African Trilogy, followed by No Longer at Ease and Arrow of God.

The story has previously been adapted for both film and television, with Pete Edochie famously portraying Okonkwo in a miniseries.

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That's nice

yarimo:
That's nice

It’s going to be dope. I like how David Oyelowo is part of the executive producer but I hope they give indigenous Ibos some of the role to play too.

Judging from the UK people doing this, they’ll premiere it in English language. I am of the opinion that they should have used Ibo language to catapult it to the mainstream like Yoruba too.

Books like this are this, Passport of Ilia by Cyprain Ekwensi, the Concubine etc etc are what Nigerian movie producers should be adopting to display the African story to the world at large.
But they prefer shooting movies with slay queens, ritual kiIIings and Yul Edochie, they are trying to copy the west while the west is now using African books to make movies, the west now make African movies for Africa.
Things like this are what we need to wake up and do not following empty trends from one month to another.

Seems Ibo people have started to get agitated.

How can Bishop Ajayi Crowther write the first Igbo dictionary and David Oyelowo produce the first major Igbo story?

They want Oyelowo sued.

LegendHero:


It’s going to be dope. I like how David Oyelowo is part of the executive producer but I hope they give indigenous Ibos some of the role to play too.

Judging from the UK people doing this, they’ll premiere it in English language. I am of the opinion that they should have used Ibo language to catapult it to the mainstream like Yoruba too.

First time you are making sense. One plate of ewedu for you.

Lindlady:
First time you are making sense. One plate of ewedu for you.

Check my next comment.

I have written another comment. An Obidient telling me I made sense sound like an insult.

My task is to make you sad. So I’m not doing a good job if I’m making sense to you.

JagabanB:
Books like this are this, Passport of Ilia by Cyprain Ekwensi, the Concubine etc etc are what Nigerian movie producers should be adopting to display the African story to the world at large.
But they prefer shooting movies with slay queens, ritual kiIIings and Yul Edochie, they are trying to copy the west while the west is now using African books to make movies, the west now make African movies for Africa.
Things like this are what we need to wake up and do not following empty trends from one month to another.

The Passport of Mallam Ilia.

azpekuliar:


The Passport of Mallam Ilia.

A movie with "The Passport of Mallam Ilia" that's well produced will be a blockbuster.
We are waiting for Westerners to produce our movies with their dirty imitation of our intonation, heard a particular statement in the woman king that keeps getting on my nerves, a statement intended to imitate our intonation saying "the Oyo has entered our land" which sounded like "d oyor has entered our land".

Abi as things don scatter apart

The greatest African literature not that incomprehensible trash from the murderous cultist parading himself as a professor.

FuckingMachine:
The greatest African literature not that incomprehensible trash from the murderous cultist parading himself as a professor.

Where is his Nobel prize?

Onto TV wey na Yoruba person go still produce. We own Ashebe and his work.

Just curious, did the production company secure the rights to turn the book into a movie series?

WhiteIverson:
Just curious, did the production company secure the rights to turn the book into a movie series?

They will. It’s impossible that they’ll just produce without getting approvals.

LegendHero:


They will. It’s impossible that they’ll just produce without getting approvals.

Alright, I also hate the fact that Popular Nigerian stories adapted into movies don't feature Nigerians in the main roles. Hollywood always want to get all the glory.

LegendHero:


Where is his Nobel prize?

Onto TV wey na Yoruba person go still produce. We own Ashebe and his work.

Oppenheimer, Tesla, Mendeleev, Gandhi, Hawking, Tolstoy & co never won the Nobel prize so who is cultist Wole Soyinka in comparison??

What am I even saying?
You don't even know who they are to begin with.

LegendHero:


It’s going to be dope. I like how David Oyelowo is part of the executive producer but I hope they give indigenous Ibos some of the role to play too.

Judging from the UK people doing this, they’ll premiere it in English language. I am of the opinion that they should have used Ibo language to catapult it to the mainstream like Yoruba too.

Dem no sabi do anything

FuckingMachine:


Oppenheimer, Tesla, Mendeleev, Gandhi, Hawking, Tolstoy & co never won the Nobel prize so who is cultist Wole Soyinka in comparison??

What am I even saying?
You don't even know who they are to begin with.

But Wole Soyinka won it.

That makes him a legend.

JagabanB:
Books like this are this, Passport of Ilia by Cyprain Ekwensi, the Concubine etc etc are what Nigerian movie producers should be adopting to display the African story to the world at large.
But they prefer shooting movies with slay queens, ritual kiIIings and Yul Edochie, they are trying to copy the west while the west is now using African books to make movies, the west now make African movies for Africa.
Things like this are what we need to wake up and do not following empty trends from one month to another.

Honestly, will be classic!
Myopic children has turned something that is suppose to be a classical exhibition to a tribal dick measuring.

LegendHero:


Achebe wrote for kids, Wole Soyinka writes for men.

Because Ckay song trended well and amass views does not imply that he is better than Wizkid.

Azikiwe died a sad man. The Nobel he covet, he never got it.

The Booker Prize they gave him was also won by a Yoruba person too. So abeg queue behind the Yoruba. We ain’t mate.

Compare.

Like I said, a political award as compensation for his spy works. In other words, the cultist was used by the colonialists against his own country. A sellout.

LegendHero:


Achebe wrote for kids, Wole Soyinka writes for men.

Because Ckay song trended well and amass views does not imply that he is better than Wizkid.

Azikiwe died a sad man. The Nobel he covet, he never got it.

The Booker Prize they gave him was also won by a Yoruba person too. So abeg queue behind the Yoruba. We ain’t mate.

You mean Achebe

LegendHero:
Seems Ibo people have started to get agitated.

How can Bishop Ajayi Crowther write the first Igbo dictionary and David Oyelowo produce the first major Igbo story?

They want Oyelowo sued.

These Yorubas are just toooo much!

I love them!

I am a Northerner!

LegendHero:
Seems Ibo people have started to get agitated.

How can Bishop Ajayi Crowther write the first Igbo dictionary and David Oyelowo produce the first major Igbo story?

They want Oyelowo sued.

I expect them to have invaded his social media accounts by now to attack and push their usual bigotry.