Paramount has acquired the film rights to Pierce Brown’s New York Times bestselling science fiction book series Rising redby calling on Francis Lawrence to produce an adaptation of the first opus, Deadline can confirm it.
Justin Rhodes, a writer-producer with credits like Terminator: Dark Fate and the Prime Video series Secret levelwill write the screenplay. Lawrence and Cameron MacConomy will produce for about:blank alongside Francesco Goedhuis, with author Brown serving as executive producer.
Rising red follows Darrow, a “red” miner on Mars who discovers that his people have been enslaved by the ruling gold caste. After being remade to infiltrate Gold Corporation, he joins a rebellion seeking to overthrow his world’s color-based hierarchy.
The deal marks the latest high-profile book adaptation put together by Paramount, which is publishing a big-budget version of Tomi Adeyemi’s YA romantic fantasy novel. Children of Blood and Bone on January 15, 2027. Others to come include Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow — in theaters November 12, 2027 — and The Midnight Library.
Best known for directing five hunger games movies — including The Hunger Games: Sunrise over the Harvestreleased November 20 — Lawrence has just finished the Stephen King adaptation The long walk for Lionsgate. More recently, he signed a contract with the same studio for Take me to my gravean adaptation of a recently published horror novel by Christopher Golden that he plans to direct and produce.
THR was the first to hear about Rising red.
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