Amazon to Adapt James Corey’s Sci-Fi Novel ‘The Mercy of Gods’

Despite initially being known as a book-selling website, Amazon has since expanded to become one of the biggest brands in the entertainment industry. The company has produced numerous movies and TV shows, some of which were absolute hits, and based on the information we have, more such hit shows are on the way.

Remember The Expanse, Amazon’s six-season sci-fi series that was a major hit for the company? Well, the series was based on the eponymous novel series by James S. A. Corey (a pseudonym), and we are glad to confirm that another potential hit project is on its way from the same creative team.

Sci-fi fans might know that Corey’s latest book, The Mercy of Gods, was released earlier this year, in August, and that it is set to be part of a trilogy that will be released under The Captive’s War title. Even before the books are out, Amazon has already begun working on an adaptation of the first book!

The recently confirmed deal is part of Amazon’s partnership with Expanding Universe, a newly-founded company. Expanding Universe was created by The Expanse showrunner Naren Shankar, director Breck Eisner, and best-selling authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (who wrote The Expanse books under the pen name James S.A. Corey). The company will announce more projects soon.

As far as this one is concerned, the series will adapt the first book, whose official synopsis reveals the following information:

The Carryx – part empire, part hive – have waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy. Now, they are facing a great and deathless enemy. The key to their survival may rest with the humans of Anjiin.

Caught up in academic intrigue and affairs of the heart, Dafyd Alkhor is pleased just to be an assistant to a brilliant scientist and his celebrated research team. Then the Carryx ships descend, decimating the human population and taking the best and brightest of Anjiin society away to serve on the Carryx homeworld, and Dafyd is swept along with them.

They are dropped in the middle of a struggle they barely understand, set in a competition against the other captive species with extinction as the price of failure. Only Dafyd and a handful of his companions see past the Darwinian contest to the deeper game that they must play to survive: learning to understand – and manipulate – the Carryx themselves.

With a noble but suicidal human rebellion on one hand and strange and murderous enemies on the other, the team pays a terrible price to become the trusted servants of their new rulers. Dafyd Alkhor is a simple man swept up in events that are beyond his control and more vast than his imagination. He will become the champion of humanity and its betrayer, the most hated man in history and the guardian of his people. This is where his story begins.

Sadly, this is all that we know about the project at this point. There is no release date yet and we have no cast information; the main crew behind the project will be the same names we listed above, i.e., the people behind the Expanding Universe company. More updates are to come, so keep following us for more!

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