Ben Aaronovitch’s bestselling fantasy collection, Rivers of London, is to be tailored for tv.
A brand new partnership will convey collectively all 9 of the novels, plus the accompanying brief tales, novellas and graphic novels, for the display screen.
Rivers of London is an element city fantasy, half police procedural, centring on detective constable Peter Grant. A newly graduated police officer from London, he's recruited within the first guide by wizard and inspector Thomas Nightingale to the Folly, a police unit engaged on supernatural crimes, after an encounter with a ghost.
The books have constantly featured on bestseller lists, with the newest two novels – 2022’s Amongst Our Weapons and 2020’s False Worth – going straight to No 1 on the Sunday Occasions bestseller listing.
The TV adaptation might be co-produced by Pure Fiction Tv, See-Noticed Movies and Aaronovitch’s personal manufacturing firm Pointless Emblem. This isn't the primary try to adapt the collection: in 2019 it was introduced that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Stolen Image was going to supply a TV model.
Tom Winchester, founding father of Pure Fiction Tv, stated: “Anyone that loves British fantasy is aware of the title PC Peter Grant and the world of Rivers of London, the place gods and goddesses stroll amongst us on town streets. As a longstanding fan, it's a big honour to be partnering with Ben to convey his distinctive mix of up to date city fantasy and gripping detective tales to the display screen.”
Aaronovitch might be an government producer, and stated he was “assured that collectively we are able to produce some ridiculously good tv”.
The primary guide, which provides the Rivers of London collection its title, was printed in 2011. Reviewing Amongst Our Weapons within the Guardian, Lisa Tuttle stated that “Aaronovitch has no friends in terms of efficiently combining the attraction of a down-to-earth police procedural with all-out fantasy”.
Tuttle praised the way in which he writes of “actual locations, actual historical past and actual issues difficult by the existence of magic, historic spirits, fairies, ghosts and speaking foxes, all dwelling alongside strange, clueless people”. She went on to name his plotting “nonetheless satisfyingly creative” and stated “the persevering with characters keep their attraction within the ninth novel of a collection that started in 2011.”
In addition to the Peter Grant novels, Aaronovitch – who started his profession as a screenwriter on Physician Who (Remembrance of the Daleks) – has additionally written a variety of graphic novels and novellas within the collection. The October Man, a novella, takes the story to Germany, and introduces Tobias Winter, an investigator for the Abteilung KDA, the department of the German Federal Prison Police which handles the supernatural.
What Abigail Did That Summer time is a novella specializing in Peter Grant’s cousin, Abigail Kamara, who was launched in the primary collection.
Talking on the Guardian Books podcast in 2020, Aaronovitch stated that his authentic concept for Rivers of London was a tv collection known as Magic Cops. Deciding to attempt to write it as prose, he got here up with the character of Peter Grant, wrote 5 pages and knew he “had one thing scorching”.
However Aaronovitch “didn’t comprehend it was going to be so profitable,” he instructed the podcast. “I believed it was going to be a very good, strong, mid-list fantasy guide.”
Aaronovitch’s work has been translated into 14 languages and bought in extra of 5 million copies worldwide, and has its personal wiki, Follypedia.
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