EXCLUSIVE: The collection adaptation of Raven Kennedy’s fantasy novels is choosing up steam with Kate Rorick hooked up to function showrunner of the challenge.
Deadline revealed on the finish of 2022 that Peter Guber’s Mandalay Tv was creating an adaptation of Kennedy’s Plated Prisoner collection, which incorporates 5 books: Gild, Glint, Gleam, Glow, and Gold.
Rorick has beforehand served as showrunner of Leverage: Redemption, the Freevee revival of the TNT motion crime collection. She has additionally written on collection together with TNT’s The Librarians and Freeform’s Marvel collection Cloak & Dagger.
Mandalay Tv will start taking out the challenge to market over the subsequent couple of months.
The books are a brand new tackle the story of King Midas and the way the whole lot he touches turns to gold. They’ve been a viral hit on Instagram’s E book Membership and BookTok.
The story follows Auren, a twenty-five 12 months outdated girl, who has been gold-touched by King Midas. Her pores and skin, her hair – the whole lot is gold apart from the whites of her eyes and her tooth. Midas saved her and she or he gave him her coronary heart. She is saved in a gilded cage on the best stage of the citadel, however she is protected. Till a deal is struck. Her belief is damaged within the one individual she thought would by no means betray her. Her love challenged, she is compelled to ponder if the King Midas she is aware of is an phantasm, and the folks exterior her gilded cage will make her want that she by no means needed to go away it within the first place.
Gild was first self-published by Kennedy in October 2020 adopted by Glint in January 2021, Gleam in Might 2021 and Glow in June 2022 with Gold, the ultimate ebook within the collection launched in 2023.
Mandalay Tv is a division of Mandalay Leisure, the corporate based by former Sony Footage boss and Rain Man and Flashdance producer Peter Guber. Latest credit embody the TV adaptation of Amazon’s I Know What You Did Final Summer season and it was concerned in Apple’s improvement of Negro League Baseball challenge If You Have been Solely White: The Lifetime of Leroy ‘Satchel’ Paige with Magic Johnson, a co-investor with Guber within the LA Dodgers.
The collection is being shepherded by Mandalay Tv Growth Government Vanessa Johnston.
Rorick is repped by Kailey Marsh at 5 Line and IAG.
