THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT Co-Creator is Writing FX's Adaptation of The Sci-Fi Novel THE SPARROW
The co-creator, showrunner, and director of Netflix’s hit series The Queen’s Gambit, Scott Frank, is set to write every episode in FX’s series adaptation of the sci-fi novel The Sparrow. Director Johan Renck (Chernobyl, Breaking Bad) is set to direct the project. This is a pretty solid team of talent!
The Sparrow was written by Mary Doria Russell and it’s said to grapple with “the potential ethical, philosophical and spiritual issues of humans intermingling with extraterrestrial life, raising questions about humanity itself.”
The limited series tells the story of a “crew of Jesuit priests and scientists, led by a Puerto Rican linguist of mixed Taíno heritage, Father Emilio Sandoz, who make first contact with an alien civilization on a Vatican-backed mission to a distant planet called Rakhat. Things go awry in the Jesuits’ quest to prove the existence of God throughout the universe, and the misadventure ends in disaster and scandal. Father Sandoz, the sole survivor, returns to Earth physically and psychologically broken only to be subjected to an inquiry.”
It’s explained that the series mostly follows the novel’s events faithfully. I’ve never read the book, but this sounds like it will make for great series.
The book was originally published in 1996 by Random House’s imprint Villard, and it’s won several prestigious literary awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis, and the British Science Fiction Association Award, among others.
Source: Variety