Legendary Will Bring Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves to TV Life

If you’ve been enjoying caller sci-fi shows similar 3-Body Problem and For All Mankind, there’s a caller amusement coming to the stable. Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi caller Seveneves is coming to the tiny surface with a TV adaptation.

Per Deadline, Legendary TV has acquired the TV rights for the 2015 novel. The publication centers connected the planet’s champion scientists each realizing that an incoming meteor is going to shatter the satellite into 7 pieces connected impact, and by extension, termination humanity successful the adjacent 2 years. With a ticking clock, the world’s nations set unneurotic to find a mode to guarantee the quality contention survives. And aft important clip jump, the publication past shifts absorption to research the aftermath of humanity’s preservation efforts, truthful you tin ideate however that mightiness marque for a bully tv show. At clip of writing, it’s unclear which streamer oregon web volition beryllium the 1 to prime up the series, since Legendary has worked with everyone from Netflix and NBC to Prime Video and HBO.

After its release, Seveneves got beauteous bully reviews. It was up for a Hugo Award successful 2016, and won the Prometheus Award for champion caller that aforesaid year. At 1 point, it was adjacent going to beryllium adapted arsenic a movie courtesy of Skydance, and with Ron Howard to direct. Those plans look to person softly died implicit time, opening the doorway for this amusement to happen. With a resurgence of sci-fi successful TV implicit the past fewer years (and forward-thinking sci-fi astatine that), now’s seemingly the close clip to effort bringing this publication to life, truthful hopefully it comes to fruition successful the adjacent future.

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