An eight-episode series adaptation based on Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows Grishaverse fantasy novels have been ordered to series by Netflix. Eric Heisserer, who penned the screenplays of Bird Box & Arrival, will pen the fantasy adaptation and serve as the showrunner. Leigh Bardugo will executive produce.
Two of @LBardugo’s best-selling Grishaverse books will be adapted into a new series by #BirdBox screenwriter @HIGHzurrer! “Shadow and Bone” and “Six of Crows” follow a young soldier as she uses magical power to unite her world even as dangerous forces plot against her! #tsarpunk pic.twitter.com/OtNvJ6GRAA
— NX (@NXOnNetflix) January 10, 2019
Eric Heisserer will adapt the series to be produced by Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps and Pouya Shahbazian
Leigh Bardugo’s NYT and USA Today bestselling Grishaverse books will finally come to life on screens around the world for the first time, in an all-new Netflix original series.
Eric Heisserer (Bird Box, ARRIVAL) will adapt and serve as showrunner for the series, which brings together the stories and characters of both Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows, two overlapping series that take place in Bardugo's Grishaverse. The series reunites Heisserer with 21 Laps (Stranger Things), who produced his Oscar-nominated film ARRIVAL. Pouya Shahbazian (the Divergent series) also serves as an executive producer.
With over 2.5 million copies sold in the English language alone, Bardugo's Grishaverse books have been translated into 38 languages around the world and counting. A new installment of the Grishaverse, King of Scars, comes out later this month.
Logline: In a world cleaved in two by a massive barrier of perpetual darkness, where unnatural creatures feast on human flesh, a young soldier uncovers a power that might finally unite her country. But as she struggles to hone her power, dangerous forces plot against her. Thugs, thieves, assassins and saints are at war now, and it will take more than magic to survive.
Episodes: 8 Episodes
Shadow and Bone is a Netflix production.
Creator / Writer / Showrunner / Executive Producer: Eric Heisserer
Author and Executive Producer: Leigh Bardugo
Executive Producers: Pouya Shahbazian (New Leaf Literary & Media) and Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, Dan Cohen and Josh Barry for 21 Laps
This is real. Shadow & Bone AND Six of Crows are coming to @netflix. The #grishaverse is about to come to life. https://t.co/FPD2VbYf2F
— Leigh Bardugo (@LBardugo) January 10, 2019
That's right. We're bringing the stories together. You're getting all the murder babies and saints #grishaverse pic.twitter.com/m3tgYh6WTh
— Leigh Bardugo (@LBardugo) January 10, 2019
This is our head writer and showrunner. It's always scary to put your work in someone else's hands, but @HIGHzurrer is a dang genius (and a lovely human) so that helps. #grishaverse #netflix https://t.co/3RRxfmpNd5
— Leigh Bardugo (@LBardugo) January 10, 2019
For years, my happy place has been in the pages of Leigh's books. I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to live there for a while. Oh this will be so much fun. https://t.co/irDbe6NK8C
— Eric Heisserer (@HIGHzurrer) January 10, 2019
I'll be honest... I'm pretty emotional right now. This has been in the works for a long while, but it didn't seem real until I got to share it with you. And now I'm very blotchy.
— Leigh Bardugo (@LBardugo) January 10, 2019
My queen @christinastrain will be a writer on the show too. I met her back in 2011 at an ALA when I picked up her beautiful book Fox Sister. Who knew we'd end up here?? https://t.co/dDh6vLaMXm
— Leigh Bardugo (@LBardugo) January 10, 2019
