Red Rising Greenlit for Movie Adaptation With Author Pierce Brown to Produce
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Key Points:
- Paramount Pictures has officially greenlit a movie adaptation of Pierce Brown's Red Rising book series, with Francis Lawrence, known for directing most of the Hunger Games films, set to direct and produce.
- The film will be produced by Lawrence’s about:blank production company alongside Cameron MacConomy, Francesco Goedhuis, and author Pierce Brown, who expressed enthusiasm about the project on Instagram.
- Justin Rhodes, known for his work on Terminator: Dark Fate and the upcoming Netflix Bioshock movie, has been hired to write the screenplay for Red Rising.
- The Red Rising series, which began in 2014 and is planned to conclude with a seventh book, follows Darrow, a low-caste "Red" who infiltrates the elite "Gold" caste in a dystopian society on Mars.
- This adaptation marks a significant development for fans of the series and comes amid other popular book-to-screen projects, such as Prime Video’s Fourth Wing series.
