There are going to be new things and new people that are introduced by the film part of it and things that are going to be left out from the books.
But when it comes to something visual, it's actually not easy to adapt it as it is. When somebody reads a book, it's going to be their imagination.
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How is the series going to be different from the books? In just the little time that I got myself involved, where I have been coming to set, I found that the work is really technical. And I think that everybody in this production is very talented, especially the cast.īut I'm not a filmmaker I'm a books person. So I don't know much about what happens. I've been on set a few times and I've seen who everybody is. I'm not actually very much involved, except that, you know, I created the story. What involvement do you have in the production of the show?
Although I've been in this business of writing books for the past seven years, this is the biggest thing that has ever happened to me. But then we had to make the announcement and it went crazy. Obviously we had been talking for a while with Showmax, so I had known about this whole big thing coming for a while. When they read the books, I think everybody finds themselves or somebody they knew or something that they have gone through in their lives. They’re about a black family, black business, black love and all of that. My books are very much about black people. There is never really a proper answer, but I draw inspiration from a lot of things that I've seen and experienced and people that I've met and have lived life with. Watch The Wife now Add Showmax to your DStv account But then there have been few characters as fascinating or as gripping as Hlomu and the Zulu brothers.”ĭudu discusses her take on the casting, her “hardcore” fans, why the telenovela adaptation is “the biggest thing that has happened” to her, and what she’s most excited to see on Thursday.
Even when Deon Meyer's Trackers book was adapted for screen by M-Net, there wasn't this much attention paid to the casting choices.
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In my years of reporting about the South African TV industry, I had never come across such heated debate. And that was before Showmax announced they were adapting the series of books that made her name - Hlomu the Wife, Zandile the Resolute and Naledi His Love - into their first Showmax Original telenovela, unleashing the most heated casting debate South Africa has ever seen.Īs IOL’s Buhle Mbonambi put it, “No other South African series had garnered that much attention on who was cast in the roles before. The Johannesburg Review of Books calls Dudu Busani-Dube “a publishing phenomenon.” She’s become the face of self-publishing in South Africa, having topped the Exclusive Books charts, and landed four books simultaneously in the Nielsen Bookscan SA bestseller list for July 2021.
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