Legendary TV To Adapt ‘Seveneves’ Sci-Fi Novel For Small Screen; Allison Friedman To Executive Produce

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Television has acquired the television rights to adapt Seveneves by Hugo Award winner Neal Stephenson. Former Color Force executive Allison Friedman (The Mortuary Collection) will executive produce.

Seveneves follows how the best scientific minds come to the same conclusion after a meteor shatters the moon into seven pieces: in two years’ time, all humans on Earth will be destroyed by a “hard rain” that will make the planet uninhabitable. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise a plan to ensure survival for humanity, initiating a new chapter for mankind. 

Seveneves was published in 2015 by William Morrow. It won the Prometheus Award for Best Novel and was picked by President Obama for his Summer Reading List.

Stephenson, the New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon, is also a respected technologist and futurist, having been the first employee at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and spent seven years as Chief Futurist for the Google-backed Magic Leap. Stephenson’s writing coined term “metaverse,” popularized the term “avatar” in a computing context, and sketched the basis for cryptocurrency.

He is represented by The Gotham Group and Stankevich Law on behalf of Darhansoff & Verrill Literary Agents.

Friedman championed The Martian while at Genre Films and served as an executive on feature films such as Crazy Rich Asians and American Crime Story for FX during her time at Color Force.