Update: A Red Queen movie isnât happening, but a television show is officially in the works. Victoria Aveyard announced that NBCâs Peacock will adapt Red Queen into a streaming series. Elizabeth Banks will produce, direct and appear in the show. Click here to learn more about the Red Queen TV series.
- May 2021: Red Queen TV Series is happening, coming to Peacock
- Sept. 2020:Â Victoria Aveyard in talks to adapt her upcoming series, âRealm Breaker,â for film/television
Original Story: Author Victoria Aveyard is expected to announce the first book in her new series, but many Red Queen fans are eagerly awaiting news about the Red Queen movie â or a similar adaptation. In a Twitter thread posted on Tuesday, Aveyard reassured those fans that progress on the movie is still âmoving,â even if she canât offer many details.
âIt is wonderful to know how many of you want a TV or film adaptation, and Iâm sorry I donât have any information to share at this time,â she said in the tweet. âPlease bear with us, the team is still chugging along, things are moving.â
Aveyard tweeted that âsomething funâ was on the horizon on Monday, directing fans to join the Red Queen Facebook group. The tweet prompted speculation about a movie update. But on Tuesday, Aveyard revealed that a live Q&A session is planned with the group on July 14. Details about her next book â her first novel outside of the Red Queen series â are expected to be revealed during the Q&A.
âPlease donât look down on news that isnât adaptation related,â Aveyard said. âI love the passion and I wish I could give you guys what you want, but I donât have that level of power or control. I can only work with what I have, and thatâs a finished book series with a new one on the way.â
A Red Queen film adaptation has been in the works since the early days of Red Queenâs publication. Universal Pictures picked up the adaptation rights to Aveyardâs popular series and quickly signed Elizabeth Banks on to direct the film in 2015. Banks, who is best known for playing Effie Trinket in the Hunger Games films, has since directed âPitch Perfect 2â (2015) and âCharlieâs Angelsâ (2019). âBreaking Badâ screenwriter Gennifer Hutchison was also brought on to adapt the books.
As for next weekâs announcement, there are few details about Aveyardâs upcoming book series, but itâs possibly the YA high-fantasy she cryptically teased in 2019.
Either way, Red Queen fans are bound to be happy about the news. As far as we see it: the movie project isnât dead. And on top of that, weâre getting a new book series from Victoria Aveyard. đ

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