HBO Developing ‘Asunda’ Television Series

Asunda
HBO is looking to fill the Game of Thrones-sized void in its programming not just with a prequel spin-off like The Long Night, but with another fantasy series altogether. One project that they’re developing involves the world of Asunda, which is based on a series of interconnected fantasy comics.

 

Deadline reports that HBO and comic creator Sebastian A. Jones are collaborating to bring his universe of swords and sorcery – compared to the setting of A Song of Ice and Fire portrayed in HBO’s own Game of Thrones – to TV. The Asunda setting is heavily based upon classical mythology and the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, and it has been explored in multiple titles from Jones and Stranger Comics, including The Untamed: A Sinner’s PrayerThe Untamed: Killing FloorNiobe: She is LifeNiobe: She is DeathErathuneEssessaDusu: Path of the Ancient, and Tales of Asunda. It is not known in what capacity that Jones will be involved in the series, but it will be executive produced by Mimi DiTrani.

 

Although the setting focuses on multiple characters, the one that’s most important to the narrative is Niobe Ayutami, who is half-elf, half-wild-elf, and an orphaned child with a greater destiny to fulfill. A child of two nations – the father being an immoral king from a nation that could be compared to Western Europe, and the mother a kidnapped chief of a nomadic tribe from a nation that corresponds to West Africa – she travels her war-torn nation of Asunda, fighting off various warring factions that all want her dead. It is believed that she may be able to reconnect with her ancestors and reunite the peoples of Asunda to save their ancestral home from an ancient threat – but only if she is able to reconcile the light within her with the darkness that she also carries with it.

 

Asunda is in development at HBO.