TNT is in early development with a series based on N.K. Jemisin's Hugo Award-winning novel The Fifth Season, the first book in her The Broken Earth trilogy. Deadline reported that Leigh Dana Jackson (24: Legacy, Sleepy Hollow) will write the adaptation and Imperative Entertainment's (All the Money in the World) Dan Friedkin, Tim Kring and Justin Levy are serving as executive producers.
Jackson brought the novel to Imperative, which secured the rights before the The Fifth Season's Hugo nomination. Deadline noted that Jemisin "went on to become the first black writer to win the Hugo Award for best novel. She followed that up last week by winning the prestigious science fiction award for the second consecutive year for the second book in the series, The Obelisk Gate." The third book in the trilogy, The Stone Sky, was published Tuesday.