Exclusive: Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society has come aboard to produce the Sony TriStar Pictures adaptation of N.K Jemisin’s The Broken Earth, which the studio acquired last summer in a seven-figure deal with the intention of turning it into a fantasy-action franchise. Jordan and Outlier Society President Elizabeth Raposo will produce the film adaptation via the Outlier Society banner. Jemisin is writing the script.
Each book in Jemisin’s series — The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky — won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, making her the first person to win the award three years in a row and the first to win for all three books in a trilogy.
The Fifth Season establishes the setting, a harsh futuristic Earth and a continent called the Stillness, which endures seasonal apocalyptic events that shake the world and its inhabitants during these “seasons.” They hole up in communities and then rebuild.
Each book in Jemisin’s series — The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky — won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, making her the first person to win the award three years in a row and the first to win for all three books in a trilogy.
The Fifth Season establishes the setting, a harsh futuristic Earth and a continent called the Stillness, which endures seasonal apocalyptic events that shake the world and its inhabitants during these “seasons.” They hole up in communities and then rebuild.
- 9/29/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: In competition, TriStar Pictures has optioned movie rights to A Most Agreeable Murder, a whodunit by first-time novelist Julia Seales, who is the writers assistant for Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Donald Glover’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith reboot at Amazon.
Seales will adapt her novel, and 3 Arts will produce. Erwin Stoff is producing, and Rachel Kim and Daniel Vang are co-producing. Shary Shirazi and Rikki Jarrett are overseeing for TriStar Pictures.
A Most Agreeable Murder, described as a novel of manners and murder, a Knives Out meets The Favourite, recently sold to Random House’s Emma Caruso in a pre-emptive two-book deal. It will be published in 2023.
Seales, a graduate of Vanderbilt University and UCLA’s Mfa program, is repped by 3 Arts and Hansen and Jacobson.
Seales will adapt her novel, and 3 Arts will produce. Erwin Stoff is producing, and Rachel Kim and Daniel Vang are co-producing. Shary Shirazi and Rikki Jarrett are overseeing for TriStar Pictures.
A Most Agreeable Murder, described as a novel of manners and murder, a Knives Out meets The Favourite, recently sold to Random House’s Emma Caruso in a pre-emptive two-book deal. It will be published in 2023.
Seales, a graduate of Vanderbilt University and UCLA’s Mfa program, is repped by 3 Arts and Hansen and Jacobson.
- 6/28/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: In Sony Pictures Entertainment’s second seven-figure deal this week for a multi-book series, TriStar Pictures emerged from a bidding battle to win The Broken Earth sci-fi trilogy by N.K. Jemisin. The author will adapt the books herself. Sony, in partnership with Elizabeth Gabler’s 3000 Pictures, earlier this week acquired the Don Winslow City on Fire trilogy for mid-seven figures.
Each book in Jemisin’s series — The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky — won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, making Jemisin the first person to win the award three years in a row and the first person to win for all three books in a trilogy.
The Fifth Season establishes the setting, a harsh futuristic Earth and a continent called the Stillness, which endures seasonal apocalyptic events that shake the world and its inhabitants during these “seasons.” They hole up in communities and then rebuild.
Each book in Jemisin’s series — The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky — won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, making Jemisin the first person to win the award three years in a row and the first person to win for all three books in a trilogy.
The Fifth Season establishes the setting, a harsh futuristic Earth and a continent called the Stillness, which endures seasonal apocalyptic events that shake the world and its inhabitants during these “seasons.” They hole up in communities and then rebuild.
- 6/4/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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