‘The Riftwar Cycle’: TV Series Adaptation Of Fantasy Books In Works At Newly Launched Six Studios
02.02.2022 - 23:33
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Huang and Carl Choi, entrepreneurs and lifelong fans of comic book, fantasy/sci-fi, and horror storytelling, have formed Six Studios as a genre-focused content company. In Six Studios’ first major content move, the company has acquired rights to the first six books in Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts’ international bestselling fantasy book series The Riftwar Cycle for television. Writers Hannah Friedman (Untitled Pixar Feature, Disney+’s Willow, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Unt. Doug Liman Feature), Jacob Pinion (Fear the Walking Dead, Unt. Doug Liman Feature) and Nick Bernardone (Fear the Walking Dead, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) are attached to adapt the books for a potential series.
The Riftwar Saga series, considered one of the best known pieces of fantasy IP not yet adapted for the screen, started with the 1982 publication of Raymond E. Feist’s Magician, the first of what now spans more than 30 books and short stories. They have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and have been translated into more than 20 languages.
Riftwar describes a multiverse of worlds which interact through tears in the fabric of spacetime called rifts. The first trilogy, titled The Riftwar Saga, written by Feist, centers around a talented, teenage magician of humble origins, named Pug, on a journey to master his craft and defend his world of Midkemia. The remaining books, The Empire Trilogy, written together by Feist and Wurts, focus on Mara, a girl of noble birth who is thrust into a dangerous power struggle when her family is assassinated. She must grow fast and survive by seizing power through the ranks of the brutal empire that rules her world of Kelewan. A rift sets Midkemia and Kelewan, Pug and Mara, on a collision course.
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