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28.01.2022 - 00:01 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Orenstein (Ghostwriter, Malcolm in the Middle) and Matt Hastings (The Handmaid’s Tale, Spinning Out) have come aboard the upcoming series Glimmerville as showrunners.
The show described as a cross between Stranger Things, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson and Gravity Falls stems from an original idea on the part of producers Michael Zoumas and Charlie Matthau, which was then turned into the book Field Guide to the Supernatural Universe by #1 New York Times bestselling author Alyson Noël.
The book set for publication this spring via Simon & Schuster is set in Glimmerville, a small town known for its incessant fog and enchanted pies. It follows a boy who longs to be normal, but must rely on his suppressed supernatural abilities to defeat an unearthly nemesis and save his town. The series adaptation has not yet been set up at a network or streamer.
“Alyson’s writing captured everything we love about the genre. It’s wildly imaginative, creepy, suspenseful and also funny,” said Orenstein and Hastings in a joint statement. “But what really excited us was what the story is really about: Growing up. Family. That awkward journey into adulthood.”
Noël is the award-winning author of 23 novels including The Immortals, the Riley Bloom series, the Soul Seekers series and Saving Zoë, which was adapted into a film for Netflix in 2019. She’s seen her books be translated into 36 languages and sold in over 200 countries, with more than eight million copies in print. Her works have made bestseller lists put out by the New York Times, USA Today, the L.A. Times, Publishers Weekly, the Wall Street Journal, NCIBA and Walmart, and have won such accolades as the National Reader’s Choice Award and the NYLA Book of Winter Award, among many
Zoe Saldana is headed to Paramount+.
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