Disney is bringing extra of Rick Riordan‘s expansive mythological universe to life. A live-action collection adaptation of The Kane Chronicles is at the moment in growth at Disney+.
Riordan will create the collection with Angela Robinson (Tips on how to Get Away with Homicide, True Blood, The L Phrase).
The Kane Chronicles is a trilogy — The Crimson Pyramid, The Throne of Fireplace, and The Serpent’s Shadow — primarily based on Egyptian mythology that’s set in the identical universe as Riordan’s different collection, Camp Half-Blood Chronicles and Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard. The story follows siblings Carter and Sadie Kane, each highly effective magicians and descendants of two pharaohs, Narmer and Ramses the Nice. The e book collection takes them on adventures the place they’re pressured to cope with the Egyptian gods and goddesses within the trendy world.
The logline for the Disney+ collection is: “When their father unleashes the god of chaos and vanishes, the estranged Kane siblings should grasp their inherited Egyptian magic, forge unlikely alliances, and rescue their father earlier than warring gods can wreak havoc on our trendy world.”
This offers new life to The Kane Chronicles after the property was beforehand being developed as a function movie for Netflix. After the rights reverted again to Riordan in 2024, it seems twentieth Tv snapped them as much as develop alongside the studio’s live-action adaptation of Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
After a rocky begin to his book-to-screen variations, Riordan has discovered fairly a little bit of success with the Disney+ tackle Percy Jackson. The collection premiered in 2023 to almost 30 million views in lower than a month. The third season is about to debut in November and can, for the primary time, adapt the third e book within the collection, The Titan’s Curse.
The Kane Chronicles is produced by twentieth Tv. Govt producers embody Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Angela Robinson, and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Jeremy Bell for The Gotham Group.
