Regina King Adapting BITTER ROOT For Legendary
The monster comic set during the Harlem Renaissance is getting the big screen treatment.
By Meredith Borders · @xymarla · May 12, 2021, 12:27 PM CDT
BITTER ROOT comic cover
Fresh off her celebrated turn directing
One Night in Miami, Regina King is now set to direct and produce Legendary's adaptation of the Eisner and Ringo Award-winning Image Comics series
Bitter Root, created by David F. Walker, Sanford Greene and Chuck Brown. From
The story is set during the vibrant Harlem Renaissance of 1924, when a fractured family of once-great monster hunters faces an unimaginable evil that descends upon New York City. For generations, the Sangeryes have hunted and cured those infected by a supernatural force that feeds off the prejudice of the era, transforming human beings into hideous monsters. With most of the family dead, and the surviving Sangeryes at odds between saving or killing the creatures, they must overcome the wounds of the past in the hopes of thwarting an invasion.