In Sony Pictures Entertainment's second seven-figure deal for a multi-book series last week, TriStar Pictures "emerged from a bidding battle to win" the adaptation rights to N.K. Jemisin's The Broken Earth sci-fi trilogy, Deadline reported, adding that the author will adapt the novels. Earlier in the week, Sony, in partnership with Elizabeth Gabler's 3000 Pictures, had acquired the Don Winslow City on Fire trilogy.
Each book in Jemisin's series--The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky--won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, "making Jemisin the first person to win the award three years in a row and the first person to win for all three books in a trilogy," Deadline wrote. Shary Shirazi, v-p creative production, and creative executive Rikki Jarrett are overseeing the project for TriStar Pictures.