Legendary Will Carry Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves to TV Life

Should you’ve been having fun with current sci-fi exhibits like 3-Body Problem and For All Mankind, there’s a brand new present coming to the secure. Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi novel Seveneves is coming to the small display with a TV adaptation.

Per Deadline, Legendary TV has acquired the TV rights for the 2015 novel. The guide facilities on the planet’s greatest scientists all realizing that an incoming meteor goes to shatter the moon into seven items on affect, and by extension, kill humanity within the subsequent two years. With a ticking clock, the world’s nations band collectively to discover a means to make sure the human race survives. And after important time leap, the guide then shifts focus to discover the aftermath of humanity’s preservation efforts, so you possibly can think about how which may make for a superb tv present. At time of writing, it’s unclear which streamer or community would be the one to choose up the collection, since Legendary has labored with everybody from Netflix and NBC to Prime Video and HBO.

After its launch, Seveneves acquired fairly good opinions. It was up for a Hugo Award in 2016, and received the Prometheus Award for greatest novel that very same 12 months. At one level, it was even going to be tailored as a film courtesy of Skydance, and with Ron Howard to direct. These plans appear to have quietly died over time, opening the door for this present to occur. With a resurgence of sci-fi in TV over the previous few years (and forward-thinking sci-fi at that), now’s apparently the best time to strive bringing this guide to life, so hopefully it involves fruition within the close to future.

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