VICTORIA AVEYARD'S NEW HIGH SEAS FANTASY SAGA TEMPEST TO BE TURNED INTO AN EPIC TV SERIES

 VICTORIA AVEYARD'S TEMPEST 

TO BE TURNED INTO AN EPIC TV SERIES

The book is out this September

Although her popular YA book saga Red Queen was also sold for a TV series adaptation to Peacock with Elizabeth Banks as producer but the deal was never actually realised, Victoria Aveyard's new adult fantasy book TEMPEST has also been sold for a TV adaptation at Chernin Entertainment. The book is out this September as the first part of The Lyrian Sea duology. According to Deadline, it will be an epic adventure of love and betrayal, amid a brutal war for the high seas, 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.

LUKE EVANS JOINS EMILY BLUNT IN 'GIRL ON THE TRAIN'! 'ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS' TRAILER WITH JOHNNY DEPP, ANNE HATHAWAY! 'TEMPEST', 'DARKOVER', '244 DEGREES OF FREEDOM' SF TV SERIES

'THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN'

 LUKE EVANS JOINS EMILY BLUNT

Now we know why our favourite Welshman in the world Luke Evans has opted out of US Army propaganda SAND CASTLE movie with Henry Cavill: he will take a role in THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN instead! He replaces Jared Leto joining Emily Blunt, Edgar Ramirez and Rebecca Ferguson in the film in which he will play the husband of Haley Bennett's character. In the adaptation of Paula Hawkins novel Emily Blunt plays a divorced woman fascinated by a couple she watches on her commute to work. But events take a sinister turn when the wife (Bennett) disappears and the Girl on the Train starts to suspect she may be witness to a murder.

NEW SF TV SERIES

'TEMPEST' AT CW  
In TV news today, CW will produce utopian series TEMPEST about a young woman living in a utopian spaceship who finds out the ship is secretly powered by slaves and becomes enmeshed romantically and politically in the dangerous rebellion brewing below the decks.
AMAZON'S 'DARKOOVER'
Amazon is also going sf by turning DARKOVER sf novels into series! Marion Zimmer Bradley's saga has 25 books and it has been translated into almost 20 languages as a mix of fantasy and science fiction set on the exotic planet of Darkover.
244 DEGREES OF FREEDOM
Fox has bought sf series 244 DEGREES OF FREEDOM set in a world where robots have evolved in intelligence, influence, and social status, and humans have been relegated to a permanent underclass until one man is driven to lead a rebellion against the machines, risking everything to uncover a conspiracy that could spell the end of the human race.

DISNEY'S FIRST TRAILER FOR

ALICE THROUGH LOOKING GLASS

Disney has revealed the first trailer for their fairy tale movie ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS which is out next May! Alice (Mia Wasikowska) has spent the past few years following in her father's footsteps and sailing the high seas. Upon her return to London, she comes across a magical looking glass and returns to the fantastical realm of Underland and her friends the White Rabbit, Absolem, the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), who is not himself. The Hatter has lost his Muchness, so Mirana (Anne Hathaway) sends Alice on a quest to borrow the Chronosphere, a metallic globe inside the chamber of the Grand Clock which powers all time. Returning to the past, she comes across friends - and enemies - at different points in their lives, and embarks on a perilous race to save the Hatter before time runs out.  Helena Bonham Carter, Stephen Fry, Alan Rickman and Michael Sheen also star.