Highlights
- Legendary Television has acquired the right to Neal Stephenson’s 2015 science fiction novel, Seveneves.
- In 2016, Seveneves was in development with Skydance with Ron Howard slated to direct. However, the project didn’t pan out.
- Seveneves follows humanity’s race to save their species after a meteor shatters the moon and triggers “hard rain”.
Neal Stephenson’s award-winning apocalyptic science fiction novel, Seveneves, may be headed to our television sets. Legendary Television has acquired the rights to adapt the speculative fiction book for the small screen, according to Deadline.
Seveneves made a huge splash (we should probably say crash) when it was published in 2015. The hard science fiction book was a critical success and landed on Barack Obama’s renowned Summer Reading List. In 2016, Seveneves won the Prometheus Award for Best Novel and was also nominated for a Hugo Award.
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Goodbye, Moon. Goodbye, Earth?
Seveneves’ story is firmly rooted in science and follows “how the best scientific minds come to the same conclusion after a meteor shatters the moon into seven pieces: In two years’ time, all humans on Earth will be destroyed by a “hard rain” that will make the planet uninhabitable.”
The planet is now a ticking time bomb. Nations band together to devise a plan to ensure the survival of humanity in outer space. Five thousand years later, their progeny — seven races now 3 billion strong — embark on another audacious journey to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth
In 2016, we reported that Skydance Media had brought in Ron Howard to direct a film adaptation of Seveneves with Bill Broyles writing the screenplay. That never panned out, however, and now Legendary Television has picked up the mantle to adapt the novel into a television series. This bodes better for the final product since the book is a three-part epic saga that takes place over 5000 years.
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Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson broke through in 1992 with his book Snow Crash. Although Snow Crash didn’t usher in the cyberpunk era in fiction, that honor goes to William Gibson, it certainly elevated the genre. Not one to stay in one genre, however, Stephenson wrote the code-breaking-centered novel Cryptonomicon. Stephenson also wrote the Locus Award-winning science fiction book Anathem.
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