Hit Sci-Fi Novel Iron Widow Is Becoming a Movie

Aiming to be the subsequent Hunger Games by method of Pacific Rim—which admittedly does sound somewhat superior—best-selling YA sci-fi fantasy The Iron Widow has been acquired by Erik Feig’s Picturestart.

Variety studies that the manufacturing firm has gotten the rights to adapt and plan a possible franchise for Xiran Jay Zhao’s novel. Writer J.C. Lee, who labored on Hulu’s Love, Victor and penned the script for the upcoming Bad Genius remake, is on board because the screenwriter for the Penguin Teen hit.

The e book’s auther, who racked up a string of acclaim for his or her 2021 debut novel, was suitably excited on social media. “IT’S SO SURREAL CONSIDERING THAT AT THE START OF 2020 I WAS JUST SOME LOSER STRAIGHT OUT OF UNIVERSITY GETTING YELLED AT BY THEIR PARENTS TO ‘GET A REAL JOB’” shared creator and content material creator Xiran Jay Zhao on their private Instagram in regards to the information. Relatable and we like to see it, actually.

Penguin Teen sums up the novel because the story of 18-year-old Zetian, who “offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister’s death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected—she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. She is labeled an Iron Widow, a much-feared and much-silenced kind of female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up Chrysalises instead.​ To tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in Huaxia​. But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. She will miss no opportunity to leverage their combined might and infamy to survive attempt after attempt on her life, until she can figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way—and stop more girls from being sacrificed.”

A second e book within the collection is due subsequent 12 months, titled Iron Widow 2: Heavenly Tyrant. We’ll hold you posted on all Iron Widow-related information as and after we study it.

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