![]() ![]() ![]() True to his commitment, he just kept reading all of the Grishaverse books, with nary a thought of adaptation entering his head.Ībout a year later, Heisserer got a call from Netflix. Part of Heisserer’s resolution was to publicly acknowledge authors whose work had excited him, so he fired off a tweet of appreciation to Bardugo - and then promptly forgot about it. “I absolutely love the world, and the characters and just the vibrancy of it all.” To start off 2017, on the advice of a friend, Heisserer picked up “Six of Crows,” one of Bardugo’s other fantasy novels set within the same creative universe as the Grisha trilogy, but years later with a different set of characters. “Just diving into something for the pure joy of it.” “So I had a resolution of, ‘I’ve got to get back to pleasure reading,'” he tells Variety. But all that success had put Heisserer into a kind of perpetual work mode, in which every book or story he read was filtered through the lens of its potential to be adapted into a feature or series. ![]() Were it not for a tweet, however, the show may not have happened at all.įour and a half years ago, “Shadow and Bone’s” executive producer and showrunner, Eric Heisserer, was earning the best reviews of his career for his script for the cerebral sci-fi thriller “Arrival” - adapted from Ted Chiang’s acclaimed short story - for which Heisserer earned an Oscar nomination. His adaptation of Josh Malerman’s sci-fi novel “Bird Box” was also about to get picked up by Netflix as a vehicle for Sandra Bullock. ![]()
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