The Red Pyramid will be the first movie to come from Netflix's adaptations of The Kane Chronicles but development has been slow. Show Picture: Rick Riordan We’ll soon be coming up on two years since Netflix first announced they’re producing movies based on Rick Riordan’s The Kane Chronicles. Despite being very little official news, we still know plenty about the upcoming movies. So here’s everything we know about The Kane Chronicles on Netflix. Netflix first announced the project all the way back in late 2020. It was officially announced to the public in September 2020 although they’d been working with Netflix since October 2019. In this deal, Netflix has both the film and television options/rights to adapt all three of the books. Although Netflix has the television rights, it’s expected they’re turning the books into movies, starting with The Red Pyramid (more on this in a second). All the projects are set to be live-action movies and produced by Mythomagic, Inc., a production company founded by Rick and Becky Riordan. The pair work on the projects and act as “guardians of the source material“. On Rick Riordan’s website it states:
What is The Kane Chronicles about?The Kane Chronicles is split into three books:
Book covers for The Kane Chronicles Often compared with the Percy Jackson series, the series is very much inspired by ancient civilization mythology, in this instance, ancient Egypt. The story takes place in the modern-day where siblings Carter and Sadie Kane are taken in by their Uncle Amos after their father, Julius, an egyptologist, goes missing. Upon learning of their family’s rich heritage of magic, the sibling pair also learn that they have been chosen as “hosts” for the Egyptian gods Horus and Isis, respectively. Soon finding themselves on the run from an ancient Egyptian order of magicians, Carter and Sadie stumble upon an evil plot to destroy the entire North American continent. Where is The Kane Chronicles in development at Netflix?Thanks to Rick and Becky Riordan, we’ve actually had a pretty good track of where the movie is in terms of development. Sadly, however, as of August 2022, it’s very much the case that the title is still in active development and nowhere close to releasing or even going into production. In December 2020, just months after the initial announcement, Becky Riordan posted to say:
In March 2021, a blog post on Rick Riordan gave us a major update on the Netflix movie:
In July 2021, a blog post says that they’re still working through notes but more interestingly, Rick spoke about the process as a whole, referring to it as a “trial by fire!”. A few months later, in October 2021, a new blog post updated us on those scripts that were sent to Netflix. The post concluded that they’re hunting for a second-pass screenwriter, saying:
In June 2022, Becky Riordan said, “Our scriptwriter is hard at work on the revised script for The Red Pyramid.” Picture: Rick Riordan The most recent update came in August 2022 when it was posted that Diandra Pendleton-Thompson is working on the current round of revisions with the post saying:
Diandra Pendleton-Thompson’s credits include Star Trek: Prodigy for Nickelodeon, Star Trek: Picard, and Stranger Things Season 3. Elsewhere, Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson franchise is getting adaptation treatment at Disney. That project is a little further along than Netflix’s with the next series, Percy Jackson and The Olympians. That’s likely due to hit in 2024 and is filming throughout 2022. Daughter of the Deep is also receiving a Disney+ adaptation. Are you looking forward to The Kane Chronicles on Netflix? Let us know in the comments down below. Is there a book 4 in The Kane Chronicles?The Kane Chronicles: The Serpent's Shadow.
Is there a Kane Chronicles book 5?Book details
Kane Chronicles Series 5 Books Collection Set By Rick Riordan (The Red Pyramid, The Throne of Fire, The Serpent's Shadow, Survival Guide [Hardcover], Brooklyn House Magician's Manual [Hardcover]):
Is The Kane Chronicles over?The third and final book in The Kane Chronicles series. It was released on May 1, 2012. It contains the final battle against Apophis.
Is there a Kane Chronicles series?The Kane Chronicles Series
The Kane Chronicles is a thrilling series for readers 9+, by bestselling American author Rick Riordan. Rick Riordan's books have won awards and sold millions of copies all over the world.
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