EXCLUSIVE: A24 and Oscar-nominated producer Jennifer Fox are teaming to develop Ursula Le Guin’s acclaimed Earthsea fantasy books for television
fantasy books for television. A24 is the studio and will finance the series project, which will be shopped to networks soon. Fox is producing.last year. Before she died in January 2018, Le Guin had given the producer her blessing to turn her work into a series of films. The adaptation since has been re-envisioned as a television series. Anminiseries based on the book series, with the teleplay co-written by Le Guin, aired on Sci Fi Channel in 2004.
s saga, is composed of five novels and eight short stories set in a fantasy archipelago of hundreds of islands, imperiled by those who use magic to gain power and upset its delicate balance. Most of its characters are people of color, and the emphasis is on understanding nature and human nature, not possessing power over them.“Ursula Le Guin is a literary legend with a huge fan base and her work has been translated into practically every written language on the globe,” said Fox.
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