‘Game of Thrones’ creators David Benioff, DB Weiss to develop ‘The Overstory’ as Netflix sequence

By PTI
LOS ANGELES: “Game of Thrones” showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss are growing a Netflix sequence based mostly on Richard Powers’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Overstory”. According to Deadline, Benioff and Weiss will government produce the sequence beneath their Netflix total deal.

Hollywood star Hugh Jackman will even function government producer together with Bernie Caulfield of Benioff and Weiss’s Bighead Littlehead manufacturing banner. Published in 2018, “The Overstory” tells the story of a world alongside ours that’s huge, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently creative, and virtually invisible to us.

A handful of disparate folks learn to see that world and are drawn into its unfolding disaster. Richard Robbins has penned the pilot script and likewise government produces the present. “The Overstory” sequence will probably be Benioff and Weiss’ third Netflix challenge after an adaptation of Liu Cixin’s sci-fi trilogy “The Remembrance of Earth’s Past” and “The Chair”, a six-part comedy sequence from showrunner Amanda Peet.