Jackie Phamotse bags Netflix deal for ‘Bare: The Blesser’s Games’
Award-winning author and social activist Jackie Phamtose has earned herself a Netflix deal for her 2017 debut novel, Bare: The Blesser’s Games.
The novel, which was awarded the African Icon Literary Award in Lagos, Nigeria in 2018, throws a light on the dark underworld of blessers and slay queens.
The self-published author’s 2019 follow-up, Bare: The Cradle of the Hockey Club, also won an adult-fiction award at the 2020 SA Book Awards.
Watch: Jackie Phamtose announces Netflix deal
The author took to Instagram to share her excitement and disbelief at working with Netflix and screenwriter Sabelo Mgidi. She shared a video of the script:
“Reading my movie manuscript is wild!!!!
Seeing my name and Sabelo together is insane! This guy worked on all the SA hits on Netflix! How do I have him on my team! God, you heard my cries! I’m in disbelief man! Oh, still can’t say anything about auditions etc
,” wrote Jackie Phamotse in the caption.
The film is still in its early stages as no auditioning information is available as yet, therefore we would have to wait a little longer for more about the show.
‘BARE: THE BLESSER’S GAMES’
The book was originally published in 2017 and focuses on a naive dreamer, Treasure, who is tossed into an unforgiving reality. Based in Johannesburg she attempts to chase the illusion of fame and a happy ending.
She is thereafter wooed by a rich man who grooms her into a power hungry machine. However, her life starts to crumble around her and she is left trying to figure out what she can offer to a man who has everything…except a soul.
The novel was controversial as she received a fair amount of criticism. She was also discredited for her rape story.
“This book is a novel based on a true story. Some of the parts are true and some of the events were adapted to form part of the story. I get people have different opinions about things written in my book, but for some guy to decide to say to me, ‘No, you were not raped.’ Was he there? Does he want medical records,” Phamotse told TimesLive.
“People want to harass me on social media and attack me personally. Instead of just asking me, okay can you share your personal story about rape then… but most of them have ulterior motives for attacking me, she continued.
‘BLESSERS’
The book looks at the blesser phenomenon that has been trending over recent years.
“I speak about different things in the book, like the brokenness of a family structure. I speak about rape, sugar daddies, mental health… you know… using alcohol to numb the pain. There are so many things that can be taken away by the person reading the book,” she added.
Phamotse’s latest book, Liwa, which addresses toxic women who kill, hit the shelves at the beginning of May.
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