Sony Pictures Entertainment's TriStar Pictures has won a bidding war for the movie rights to N.K. Jemisin's The Broken Earth trilogy.
Jemisin, who won the Hugo Award for Best Novel three years in a row for each book in The Broken Earth trilogy, will be in charge of writing the scripts for the movie adaptations, joining the likes of Stephen King, Gillian Flynn and Neil Gaiman on the list of authors who've adapted their own work.
Though a specific price has not been named, the winning bid is said to be in the seven-figure range. The Broken Earth is Sony's second seven-figure literary rights purchase this week, following the acquisition of Don Winslow's City on Fire trilogy.
The Broken Earth trilogy, consisting of The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky, is a science fiction/fantasy epic set in a future where apocalyptic events have become a regular occurrence. People known as "orogenes" who can control the Earth's energy are vital to survival during these apocalyptic "seasons," but are feared for their power and harshly oppressed.
The first book in the series, The Fifth Season, had previously been picked up for a TV adaptation by TNT in 2017, with Daveed Diggs attached to the unmade project as executive producer.
Source: Deadline