LGBTQ people have long been underrepresented in the science fiction genre, but Pose's Indya Moore is ready to right those wrongs.
Moore will executive produce and star in Magic Hour, a modern-day anthology sci-fi horror series in the vein of Twilight Zone, directed by Che Grayson. And the first episode is a gender-bent retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
"In this psychedelic-macabre portrait of a mysterious young woman who wakes up one morning without a soul, and roams the streets of Tokyo in search of one," reads the episode's IMDB description.
Moore is excited to share a queer retelling of a timeless story, a perspective not often explored in sci-fi.
"It’s a really interesting, I think, map-out in how, 'What is gender identity? What is gender performance? Is gender a performance?'" said Moore, reports The Mary Sue. "Here we’re seeing an adult human being who was just born, basically. We’re analyzing it from the perspective of, 'What would a human be as an adult if they were just born as an adult, regardless of how they were assigned at birth?'”
The 23-year-old executive producer wants to prioritize people of color throughout the storytelling in Magic Hour.
“LGBTQ people of color are the most marginalized demographic in the world right now, and the most underrepresented. We’re very underrepresented also in sci-fi, and it’s telling to how little we exist in the imagination of creators."
That's all the details we have at the moment, but we will most definitely be watching!
