EXCLUSIVE: Victoria Aveyard, the author of the hit Red Queen series of novels, is back with her adult fantasy debut and it’s already in the works as a TV series.
Aveyard is publishing Tempest in September and Chernin Entertainment has snapped up the rights to adapt it for the small screen.
The book is described as an “epic adventure of love and betrayal, amid a brutal war for the high seas”.
Tempest is the first book in The Lyrian Sea duology and is a pirate fantasy set against the fall of the Golden Age of Piracy, following a former noblewoman caught between empire and rebellion – and between duty and the only man she’s ever loved.
Aveyard’s Red Queen and Realm Breaker series have become huge hits with the YA fantasy epics selling more than 8M copies worldwide. The television rights to Red Queen were snapped up by Peacock, which has been developing an adaptation with Elizabeth Banks set to produce, in association with Warner Bros. Television.
Chernin Entertainment’s Peter Chernin and Tracey Cook will serve as exec producers of the Tempest adaptation alongside Aveyard with Rachel Moore will overseeing the project the the studio, which is behind Netflix’s Man on Fire and Apple’s Chief of War, Truth Be Told, and See.
The studio recently produced breakout feature hit Backrooms and has three series coming up for Netflix: Age of Innocence, The Body, and Kennedy.
Aveyard is repped by WME, New Leaf Literary and Myman Greenspan.
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