Amazon MGM Studios is growing a restricted sequence adaptation of Days of Hearth: A Novel of Pompeii, sort Already realized solely.
The ebook is written by Kate Quinn, Stephanie Del Rey, Ben Kane, Eliza Knight, Sophie Perrineau and Vicki Alvill. Michael and Horatio Hearst function writers, govt producers and showrunners. Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Clayton Krueger and Sharon Hugh function govt producers for Scott Free Productions. Amazon-MGM Footage will produce.
The ebook takes place simply earlier than the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which fully destroyed Pompeii and killed a lot of its inhabitants. It tells a sequence of overlapping tales concerning the folks of Pompeii and what their lives had been like earlier than fireplace fell from the sky.
Scott Free’s upcoming TV reveals embrace Amazon Prime Video’s “Blade Runner 2099” and FX’s “Alien: Earth.”
Michael Hirst is greatest recognized for creating historic dramas equivalent to “Vikings,” “The Tudors” and “Billy the Child,” the final of which was simply renewed for a 3rd and closing season at MGM+. He’s additionally an govt producer on the Netflix sequels “Vikings” and “Vikings: Valhalla.” In movie, he’s greatest recognized for writing “Elizabeth” and co-writing the sequel “Elizabeth: The Golden Age,” each of which starred Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth I of England. Horatio Hearst performed Charlie Baldry in “Billy the Child” and Bishop Grimkotl in “Vikings: Valhalla.” If the challenge makes it to sequence, it will mark his tv writing debut.
Michael is repped by United Brokers, WME and Nelson Davis. The ebook rights deal was brokered by Lucy Stille of Lucy Stille Literary on behalf of Kevan Lyon of Marsal Lyon Company.
