Paramount has acquired the rights to Pierce Brown’s sci-fi book series Red Rising, with Francis Lawrence attached to direct the first film.
Key facts
- •Paramount acquired the film rights to Pierce Brown’s Red Rising book series.
- •Francis Lawrence is attached to direct a film based on the first novel in the series.
- •Justin Rhodes will write the script for the adaptation.
- •The story centers on Darrow, a miner on Mars who infiltrates the ruling Gold caste to join a rebellion.
Paramount has acquired the film rights to Pierce Brown’s bestselling sci-fi book series Red Rising, setting Francis Lawrence to direct an adaptation of the first novel. Justin Rhodes will write the script for the project, which is produced by Lawrence and Cameron MacConomy for about:blank alongside Francesco Goedhuis, with Brown serving as executive producer.
Plot and Setting of the Series
Red Rising is set in a science-fiction future where humanity has colonized planets and structured society into a color-coded caste system. The impoverished Reds perform slave labor in Martian mines, while the super-strong Golds rule the solar system. The story follows Darrow, a Red miner who undergoes a brutal transformation to infiltrate the ruling Gold class and join a rebellion's revenge plot against the hierarchy. There are six existing books in the series, with a seventh and final novel titled Red God upcoming.
Filmmaker Background and Other Projects
Director Francis Lawrence is well-known for adapting popular franchise novels, having directed multiple entries in the Hunger Games series, including Sunrise on the Reaping and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, as well as the Stephen King adaptation The Long Walk. Writer Justin Rhodes, whose previous credits include Terminator: Dark Fate and the Prime Video series Secret Level, is attached to pen the screenplay.
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