If you hear nothing, it’s because I fucked up.” - Pierce Brown at Union Square Barnes & Noble (Quote pulled from a video courtesy of Frostbit_Sky on Youtube) So, hopefully in a month or two, we’ll have a cool announcement. We have all the financing and all that stuff, we just gotta have someone who wants to carry it. But we’ve pieced together the pilot, written it. Instead, I’d like not to be embarrassed again and for when we announce it, for it to be a success, not a maybe success, not an option thing. I think we’re in a world that loves announcements but nothing happens.
So, I found the director, I found the writer - and if you know who they are, don’t say their names, please, because we’re still keeping it low because I don’t think we should put the cart before the horse again. And instead, I started to piece together the creative team. I sat on them for two years because I thought that no movie was better than a bad movie.
Then I found Hollywood reality, right? So I wrote the first couple drafts and then the script got passed off to someone else and the whole thing went into what we call ‘development hell.’ Which is basically me sending emails and getting no replies.įortunately, the rights reverted back to me. “In 2014, I sold it to Universal, and I thought I was cool, cool, cool because I thought a movie was coming out and it’d be awesome awesome awesome. Here’s the update he offered Howlers during the Q&A at the Union Square Barnes & Noble in New York City:
“Soon” is more or less what Pierce Brown is still saying on the subject, but his reasoning for keeping mum on the topic is pretty sound. For a while now, Pierce Brown’s default response to requests for an update on the Red Rising TV show was that information would be coming soon. As Pierce Brown made the rounds on his Dark Age book tour, one of the questions that came up more than once from Red Rising fans was about the status of the Red Rising TV show.
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