Darren Aronofsky Is Taking On Margaret Atwood’s MADDADDAM Trilogy For HBO

I don't know if this is a massive deal or if it just seems like one because I live with a person who absolutely adores Margaret Atwood, but Darren Aronofsky is going to adapt the author's MaddAddam trilogy for HBO. That sentence feels almost too awesome to be true.

Deadline reported the series' development yesterday. Not a whole lot is else known because nothing regarding the project has really happened yet, but for fans of the books or fans of Aronofsky or fans of HBO, this is good news. For fans of any combination of those three things it's really good news. And for fans of all three at the same time it could be the best news ever. Life so rarely gifts you like this, you lucky Aronofsky-Atwood-HBO nerds.

Many years ago I was more or less forced to read Oryx and Crake, and though I liked it, I apparently did not enjoy it enough to continue reading its sequels, Year of the Flood or MaddAddam. What I read took place in a pretty dark future where pigs are cloned to grow organs for people, kids watch all manner of violent pornography on an advanced version of the Internet, and at some point pretty much everyone dies. If you can't tell, I am struggling with the details. I do remember that Atwood's fantasy elements and weird over reliance on sexual imagery when describing even the most non-sexual things sort of reminded me of Clive Barker.

That, combined with a visual director like Aronofsky, makes me super excited to see what happens with this, and I honestly believe you should be too.