Tag: The Magicians

Abracadabra! The Magicians Ordered By Syfy!

Syfy has announced a big one. The network has greenlit The Magicians, a modern epic fantasy based on the trilogy of novels by Lev Grossman. The series stars Jason Ralph (above) as Quentin Coldwater, a graduate student who enrolls in  Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy and, along with his classmates, discovers the magic they’re talking about – the […]

Syfy Greenlights The Magicians Pilot!

Syfy is attempting something that one of the Big Four couldn’t do – adapt Lev Grossman’s best selling fantasy The Magicians for TV. Prime Suspect’s John McNamara will write the script with Supernatural’s Sera Gamble. The one-hour drama series would follow a group of twentysomethings who, while studying magic in New York City, discover that […]

Busy Syfy Developing Tons of Cool Novels, Graphic Novels for TV–Plus, Sharknado 3!

Syfy has been snatching up all kinds of cool stuff to adapt for television: Frank Miller’s sci-fi miniseries, Ronin; Jonathan Hickman’s military SF/time travel graphic novel, Pax Roman; Robert Kirkman’s clone/conspiracy thriller, Clone; and Lev Grossman’s fantasy novels series, The Magicians. Also, the previously mentioned Letter 44. Plus (under the category of retread/WHY?) Sharknado 3. […]