The news comes ahead of the author’s latest novel’s release later this week. “The Sea of Tranquility” is a centuries-spanning metaphysical story about a young Englishman, a renowned intergalactic author, and a detective in a place called Night City. Kirkus reviews call the book “Even more boldly imagined than ‘Station Eleven,'” which is saying something given the creativity that brimmed within the post-apocalyptic world of that book.
The other adaptation in the works is for “The Glass Hotel,” which isn’t set in a future world, but in a present-day one where two siblings end up caught up in a Ponzi scheme. The 2020 book was well-received, and even made former President Barack Obama’s annual list of his favorite reads of the year.
Mandel will co-write these two new series herself, a detail that she expanded upon in a tweet after the New Yorker profile went live. After Somerville screen-capped the portion of the profile related to the new projects, Mandel confirmed the project in a quote-tweet, saying:
“It’s true, I just spent a month in L.A. working on TV adaptations of The Glass Hotel and Sea of Tranquility with @patrickerville and the rest of the Station Eleven team, and the project makes me so happy.” – @EmilyMandel
Somerville brought the same raw humanity to post-apocalyptic drama “Station Eleven” as he did in his time writing for “The Leftovers,” a new cult classic sci-fi drama that grapples with tough ideas about loss. The “Station Eleven”…
