TriStar Pictures has won the film rights to N.K. Jemisin’s sci-fi novel trilogy “The Broken Earth” with the author to adapt the books herself.
The story is set on a harsh futuristic Earth and a continent called the Stillness which endures seasonal apocalyptic events that shake the world and its inhabitants during these ‘seasons’.
They hole up in communities and then rebuild. Key to that effort are ‘orogenes,’ individuals who can draw incredible magical power from reservoirs of the Earth.
They are trained for the task from childhood in brutal fashion, by a societal order called the Guardians. The orogenes kind of hold the world together and stave off eruptions, but they are treated badly.
Each book in the series won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, making her the first person to win the award three years in a row and the first person to win for all three books in a trilogy.
Source: Deadline
