Much of the same team who worked on “Star Trek: Picard,” including first season showrunner Michael Chabon, are also at work on an event series adaptation of Chabon’s own Pulitzer Prize-winning 2000 novel “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay”.
Showtime, CBS Television Studios and Paramount Television are backing the new version – an epic tale of love, war and the birth of America’s comic book superhero obsession in big-band-era New York. The action follows budding magician Joe Kavalier and his genius cousin Sammy Clay who are living in 1939 New York City.
Chabon and his wife Ayelet Waldman will executive produce alongside “Fringe” and modern ‘Trek’ duo Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman. Speaking with Collider, Kurtzman offered an update on how the project is progressing:
“We’re doing Kavalier & Clay, all of us, so, that’s exciting. Michael and his wife Ayelet Waldman, together, they’re writing the whole thing, and it is not a movie. The two of them and Alex Kurtzman and I, who are producing it with them, have sat around and got to do that thing that you wanna do with one of your favorite novels with the author in the room, which is go, ‘What if you did… and how do you…’ And it’s super fun. I do know how long it is, and again I’m not gonna tell you, only because I feel like it’s not actually mine to share. It’s theirs to share. But I think that they are going to give it the breadth it deserves.”
The project is certainly well into the script writing stage and falls under Chabon and Waldman’s development deal at CBS Television Studios, even though it’s expected that Showtime will be the show’s ultimate home.
