Red Rising Movie in the Works with Francis Lawrence at Paramount
The Hollywood Reporter • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Paramount Pictures has acquired the film rights to Pierce Brown's best-selling dystopian sci-fi series Red Rising, with Francis Lawrence attached to direct the adaptation of the first novel.
- The story, set on Mars, follows Darrow, a low-class Red miner who infiltrates the elite Gold society to dismantle the oppressive color-coded class system.
- Justin Rhodes will write the screenplay, and Lawrence will produce alongside Cameron MacConomy and Francesco Goedhuis, with Brown serving as executive producer.
- The Red Rising saga has sold over 6 million copies and consists of six published books with a seventh forthcoming; previous attempts to adapt the series included Universal and a potential TV series.
- This project joins other Paramount literary adaptations in development, including Children of Blood and Bone, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and The Midnight Library.
