#television-adaptations

#television-adaptations

Sanderson completed Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books, although the live-action adaptation was unceremoniously canceled by Amazon. Amazon Studios Revealed by on Wednesday, the first book in the Cytoverse, Skyward, is coming to the small screen courtesy of Tomorrow Studios, the folks responsible for Netflix's live-action One Piece series. The pilot episode will be written by Sanderson himself, along with Agents of S.H.I.D. alumni Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen, who will also help Sanderson executive-produce the show.

Since Brian De Palma made the horror classic "Carrie" in 1976, bestselling author Stephen King has been a Hollywood favorite for adaptations. That film, based on King's first published novel of the same name from 1974, was followed by Tobe Hooper's take on "Salem's Lot" in 1979 for television and Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" on the big screen just one year later. By 1980, three legendary directors had adapted King's work, cementing his place in the horror genre, onscreen as well as on the page.