Justin Somper’s Beloved ‘Vampirates’ Is Getting a TV Adaptation
Netflix’s ‘Punisher’ author Steve Lightfoot may even develop ‘The String Diary’ sequence.
The Big Picture
- Showrunner Steve Lightfoot is creating TV adaptation of
The String Diaries
. -
Vampirates
is at the moment in growth with RubyRock Pictures. - These diversifications goal to provide missed novels new life, mirroring the success of Netflix’s
Heartstopper
.
An enormous week for the showrunner of Netflix’s Punisher sequence simply obtained much more thrilling. After it was beforehand introduced that Steve Lightfoot would helm the live-action Spider-Man Noir sequence that includes Nicolas Cage, the author has formally discovered his subsequent challenge. A brand new report from Deadline revealed that Lightfoot is working with Sony Pictures to develop a TV adaptation of The String Diaries, a supernatural thriller which was written by Stephen Lloyd Jones. RubyRock Pictures, who’s working with Netflix to provide the upcoming Geek Girl sequence that includes House of the Dragon star Emily Carey, is hooked up to provide the challenge.
In addition to The String Diaries adaptation, Zoë Rocha of RubyRock footage additionally revealed that they’re engaged on one other adaptation of Justin Somper‘s Vampirates guide sequence. There have been six books printed within the sequence between 2005 and 2011 that comply with twins who’re separated from one another and land on two completely completely different ships. Rocha says each The String Diaries and Vampirates diversifications are a part of RubyRock’s mission to provide novels that “slipped through the cracks 5–10 years ago” the live-action diversifications that their passionate fan bases deserve. Rocha additionally spoke concerning the upcoming Geek Girl sequence, evaluating it to a different extremely profitable Netflix love story, Heartstopper:
“When [Netflix] made Heartstopper they had the pure intent of saying ‘This is a thing we are doing in out bubble’ and then it caught the zeitgeist. We wanted that same feeling of creating something in a little bubble of its own and then seeing what happens.”
Great Book Adaptations Are Already Here and More Are Coming
It’s a nice time to be a fan of live-action guide diversifications. Apple TV+ — who beforehand accomplice with Lightfoot on the sequence Shantaram, an motion journey crime drama starring Charlie Hunnam — is within the midst of airing Dark Matter, a sci-fi sequence primarily based on the novel of the identical title by Blake Crouch. The sequence stars Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly and follows Jason, a physics professor who’s kidnapped one night time and wakes as much as understand his life is not in any respect as he remembers. Also on the horizon is a movie adaptation of Andy Weir‘s Project Hail Mary, starring Ryan Gosling, a story about a man who wakes up on a spaceship alone, mild tears away from earth, solely to comprehend the whole destiny of the human race is in his fingers.
Neither The String Diaries nor Vampirates diversifications have an official launch date, however all ten episodes of Geek Girl launch on Netflix on May 30. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates and take a look at Lightfoot’s earlier work in The Punisher, now streaming on Disney+.
The Punisher
After taking revenge on those that murdered his household, aimless Marine veteran Frank Castle finds a new that means in life as a vigilante often called “The Punisher.”
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