Ocean’s 11 in a
Game of Thrones world.” He loved them so much that he even Tweeted Bardugo about just how much he loved them. When he got a call from Netflix a year or so later about the project, he wondered how his name even came up as a potential collaborator then he remembered his Tweets.
Because of his
Six of Crows love, he originally wanted to adapt those books only. But Bardugo made him realize why that wouldn’t be possible.
“You can’t introduce a magic system and a magic system on steroids in the same breath, that’s not gonna work for viewers. And if you think I’m gonna let you get away with putting the Darkling and jurda parem in the same space, you’re dead wrong,” she told him.
The
Shadow and Bone Netflix series is so close we can almost touch Ben Barnes’ scruffy 5 o’clock shadow he’s been effortlessly maintaining.
With a rich fantasy world that author Leigh Bardugo has styled ‘Tsarpunk’, the Shadow and Bone series is full of engaging characters, elemental magic, and, of course, a hell of a lot of darkness. As Netflix adapts the first five books of the Grishaverse into a show, we’ve only gotten hints about what the content’s going to be like, and where it will differ or align with the books. We know the (approximate) cast, the episode titles, and… that’s about it.
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