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[Thread] I have good news and bad news and good news. 😁 Good: The Expanse team has reformed to create a media company, Expanding Universe. Bad: They haven't announced a sequel to The Expanse. Good: They're adapting James S.A. Corey's new sci-fi trilogy into a TV series for Amazon MGM Studios! 1/7

Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, aka James S.A. Corey, The Expanse showrunner Naren Shankar, and The Expanse director Breck Eisner have come together on this very promising project, which I'm likely to be talking about a lot hehehe After all, why change a winning team? 2/7

And so their first project is a TV adaptation of the new book series The Captive's War, for Amazon MGM Studios. The first novel, The Mercy of Gods, was published in August. A first novella set in the same universe, Livesuit, was released in October. Set in a distant future of galactic empire...

...alien civilizations, and inspired by the biblical Book of Daniel, The Captive’s War follows a group of prisoners who rise from the ashes of catastrophe to destroy their conqueror’s society from within. It is an epic tale about the transformative power of individuality in a totalitarian world.

But that's not all. Breck Eisner: "Expanding Universe is focused on developing sci-fi narratives with sweeping world-building and elevated storylines, geared toward multi-platform expressions in filmed entertainment, gaming, and publishing. The Captive’s War is a perfect launchpad for our model."

Abraham: “Our track record has already attracted some exciting material: original features, adaptations by other novelist’s work, and even legacy IPs which would be a blast to reimagine in a modern context. In success, we have the opportunity to bring a new generation of sci-fi to the screen.” 6/7

So we've got a new original sci-fi series to look forward to, and potentially more good surprises. Which, of course, I'll be happy to cover. What about The Expanse? In principle, Alcon still has the TV rights. But cooperation is never impossible. 😌 7/7 variety.com/2024/tv/news...

I don't know if you realize how lucky we are: the team that gave us the gem that is The Expanse has reformed to create an original sci-fi series. That's going to give me a lot of work lol To celebrate, I'm going to publish a new part of my series on The Art of The Expanse. 🥳

“Adaptation is a million tiny little blocks stacked on top of each other. At this point, I think we've stacked the third block. So there's, like, thousands of blocks to go before anybody would go, ‘OK, so now let's talk visual effects.’ We’re talking about things like, ‘Do we write a script?’”