Slave Play Scribe Jeremy O. Harris Will Adapt The New World Comic for the Screen

Warner Bros. Entertainment has recruited rising writer Jeremy O. Harris to turn Ales Kot's graphic novel The New World into a film, according to Deadline. Harris is currently represented on Broadway with his debut work Slave Play.

The New World is a genre-bending sci-fi story centered on the lives of two lovers—an orderly vegan hacker and a chaotic cop with a neverending reality TV show—who are on the run as they navigate the order of The New World. The novel was released by Image Comics in 2019.

Harris first burst onto the scene when Slave Play debuted at New York Theatre Workshop in 2018. His playwriting credits also include "Daddy," Black Exhibition and the upcoming A Boy's Company Presents: "Tell Me If I'm Hurting You," which will appear at Playwrights Horizons this spring. His prior screenwriting work includes Zola, starring Tony nominee Colman Domingo, set to debut at Sundace this month.