A PRESTIGE TRILOGY SPANNING CONTINENTS, CENTURIES, AND THE ORIGINS OF A PEOPLE
Severed from the Sun is Cebo Campbell's most ambitious work. A speculative trilogy tracing the fracture and restoration of a people across three books, three continents, and three centuries. It is the long game: a magnum opus designed to be written, produced, and showrun by its creator.
A GAMECHANGING, GENRE-DEFYING SERIES
Severed from the Sun is a three-book speculative series that reaches backward through the origins of the African diaspora and forward into a future shaped by what was taken, what survived, and what was carried in the body long after the crossing. It is a work of world-building at the largest scale, a narrative architecture that holds history, mythology, and invention inside a single unfolding story of severance and return.
IP DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
FORMAT: TV SERIES
STATUS: Concept
A PREMIUM TELEVISION SERIES BUILT FOR THE SCALE OF THE STORY
The format strategy for Severed from the Sun positions the trilogy as a premium, multi-season television series with the scope and ambition of the most celebrated prestige dramas. Each book maps to a distinct season, carrying its own geography, its own generation, and its own central conflict while building toward a single mythological arc that spans the full series.
This format allows the story to breathe at the scale it demands: a civilization-level narrative told through intimate human lives, where every episode deepens the world and raises the stakes of what was lost and what can still be reclaimed. Severed from the Sun is not an adaptation of a novel. It is a world designed from its origin to live on screen, authored by the writer who will bring it there.
INTERESTED IN COLLABORATING ON SEVERED FROM THE SUN?
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