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EXCLUSIVE: Tomorrow Studios, nan indie workplace down Netflix’s One Piece, has group retired to accommodate for tv Skyward, nan first book successful bestselling writer Brandon Sanderson‘s Cytoverse franchise. Sanderson will constitute nan aviator book pinch TV writer-producers Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
In nan Skyward (aka Cytoverse) sci-fi book series, humanity is trapped connected a harsh satellite and perpetually nether onslaught by mysterious alien forces. The communicative follows Spensa Nightshade, a wished aviator who dreams of joining nan combatant corps to take sides humanity and redeem her disgraced father’s legacy. Blending high-stakes aerial combat, precocious technology, and themes of courage, identity, and discovery, nan bid explores some nan secrets of nan postulation and Spensa’s maturation from an outsider into a cardinal fig successful humanity’s conflict for survival.
“Brandon has created a thrilling beingness wherever courage, curiosity and determination to situation what we deliberation tin alteration nan destiny of full worlds,” said Tomorrow Studios’ CEO/Partner Marty Adelstein and President/Partner Becky Clements. “The imagination that he, Jed and Maurissa person for a tv adjustment is ‘defiant to nan end’.”
Adelstein and Clements will executive nutrient nan bid done Tomorrow Studios, an ITV Studios partnership, on pinch Sanderson, Whedon and Tancharoen.
“I’ve been moving connected nan Skyward bid for astir a decade, and to person a partner for illustration Tomorrow Studios to thief bring this communicative to tv is simply a dream travel true,” Sanderson said.
Sanderson, who useful mostly successful nan imagination and sci-fi space, has sold much than 50 cardinal books. His upcoming Cosmere novel, The Fires of December, is scheduled for merchandise later this year. Sanderson is repped by WME, JABberwocky Literacy Agency, and Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman and Grodin.
The husband-and-wife penning and producing squad of Tancharoen and Whedon’s credits besides see nan philharmonic Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, which they co-created pinch Joss Whedon and Zack Whedon. It won a Hugo, Saturn, and Emmy Award. Tancharoen and Whedon are repped by CAA and Myman, Greenspan, Fineman, Fox, Rosenberg & Light.
In summation to One Piece, which is headed into its 3rd play connected Netflix, Tomorrow Studios precocious produced nan Prime Video constricted bid The Better Sister and Apple TV’s Physical. Adelstein and Clements are besides executive producers connected ABC’s Shifting Gears, and Adelstein executive produces Hulu’s upcoming Prison Break reboot.
