EXCLUSIVE: The sequence adaptation of Raven Kennedy’s fantasy novels is selecting up steam with Kate Rorick hooked up to function showrunner of the undertaking.
Deadline revealed on the finish of 2022 that Peter Guber’s Mandalay Tv was growing an adaptation of Kennedy’s Plated Prisoner sequence, 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 sequence. She has additionally written on sequence together with TNT’s The Librarians and Freeform’s Marvel sequence Cloak & Dagger.
Mandalay Tv will start taking out the undertaking to market over the subsequent couple of months.
The books are a brand new tackle the story of King Midas and the way all the things he touches turns to gold. They’ve been a viral hit on Instagram’s Guide Membership and BookTok.
The story follows Auren, a twenty-five 12 months previous girl, who has been gold-touched by King Midas. Her pores and skin, her hair – all the things is gold aside from the whites of her eyes and her enamel. Midas saved her and she or he gave him her coronary heart. She is saved in a gilded cage on the very best stage of the citadel, however she is secure. 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 pressured to ponder if the King Midas she is aware of is an phantasm, and the folks outdoors her gilded cage will make her want that she by no means needed to depart 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 guide within the sequence 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. Current credit embody the TV adaptation of Amazon’s I Know What You Did Final Summer time and it was concerned in Apple’s improvement of Negro League Baseball undertaking If You Had been Solely White: The Lifetime of Leroy ‘Satchel’ Paige with Magic Johnson, a co-investor with Guber within the LA Dodgers.
The sequence is being shepherded by Mandalay Tv Improvement Government Vanessa Johnston.
Rorick is repped by Kailey Marsh at 5 Line and IAG.
