EXCLUSIVE: QC Entertainment, the producers behind Get Out and BlacKkKlansman, are branching into TV. They have closed a deal in heavy bidding for Wanderers, the upcoming novel by bestselling creator Chuck Wendig. They intention to show it right into a socially related, provocative TV sequence that will probably be produced by QC’s Sean McKittrick and Ray Mansfield and producer Ilene Staple, who introduced the venture to QC.
The e book will probably be printed by Penguin Random House’s Del Rey imprint on July 2.
Here’s the logline: A decadent rock star. A deeply spiritual radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage woman who stands out as the world’s final hope. Shana wakes up one morning to find her little sister within the grip of a wierd illness. She seems to be sleepwalking. She can not speak and can’t be woken up. And she is heading with inexorable dedication to a vacation spot that solely she is aware of. But Shana and her sister aren’t alone. Soon they’re joined by a flock of sleepwalkers from throughout America, on the identical mysterious journey. And like Shana, there are different “shepherds” who observe the flock to guard their family and friends on the lengthy darkish street forward.
For on their journey, they’ll uncover an America convulsed with terror and violence, the place this apocalyptic epidemic proves much less harmful than the worry of it. As the remainder of society collapses throughout them—and an ultraviolent milita threatens to exterminate them—the destiny of the sleepwalkers relies on unraveling the thriller behind the epidemic. The terrifying secret will both tear the nation aside—or convey the survivors collectively to remake a shattered world.
Wanderers marks QC’s first occasion tv sequence after companions McKittrick, Mansfield and Edward H. Hamm Jr helped hatch the Jordan Peele-directed Get Out and Spike Lee-directed BlacKkKlansman. For the latter, QC have been early champions of Ron Stallworth’s unimaginable story and have been those to first board the venture after they acquired the rights to the e book. They have been additionally in on the bottom ground with Get Out and noticed back-to-back Oscar noms for Best Picture and screenplay and captured the zeitgeist.
McKittrick adopted by producing Peele’s present hit, Us.
Wanderers is Wendig’s a lot anticipated subsequent e book after his New York Times bestselling trilogy Star Wars: Aftermath. Wendig has additionally authored the Miriam Black thrillers, the Atlanta Burns books, Zer0es and Invasive, alongside different works throughout comics, video games, movie and extra. He was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and an alum of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, and he served because the co-writer of the Emmy-nominated digital narrative “Collapsus.”
Wendig is repped by ICM Partners. The offers have been negotiated by legal professional Chris Abramson of Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson on behalf QC and ICM Partners’ Josie Freedman and literary agent Stacia Decker at Dunow, Carlson & Lerner on behalf of Wendig.
