Get ready book-a-holics- because Netflix will be bringing Leigh Bardugo’s “Shadow and Bone” series to television with “Bird Box” writer Eric Heisserer as show runner!
The streaming giant announced that it would be adapting the Grisha fantasy trilogy, which is made up of the novels “Shadow and Bone” (2012), “Siege and Storm” (2013), and “Ruin and Rising” (2014).
Another novel, “Six of Crows,” was released in 2015 and is also set in the “Grisha-verse.”
In their announcement, the streaming service giant Netflix specifically mentioned that “Shadow and Bone” and “Six of Crows” would be adapted for the small screen.
The “Shadow and Bone” series will be eight episodes and Netflix has brought back Heisserer (the writer of Netflix’s hit “Bird Box”), who will produce the series and serve as showrunner.
Shawn Levy, who previously produced Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” and Pouya Shahbazian, who produced the Divergent series, will also serve as producers for the upcoming series.
Netflix has been producing an impressive amount of in-house series; so adapting “ Shadow and Bone” could prove useful as well as successful, as the story already is massive.
The official logline reads: “In a world cleaved in two by a massive barrier of perpetual darkness, where unnatural creatures feast on human flesh, a young soldier uncovers a power that might finally unite her country. But as she struggles to hone her power, dangerous forces plot against her. Thugs, thieves, assassins and saints are at war now, and it will take more than magic to survive.”
The Grishaverse books have sold 2.5 million copies in English and have been translated into 38 languages. Bardugo continues the story later this month with the publication of “King of Scars.”
By: Maytinee Kramer
