A series adaptation of the fantasy novel “The Everlasting” is in development at Netflix. The streamer won the rights to Alix E. Harrow’s bestseller in a competitive situation.
Daphne Ferraro (previously the head writer on Amazon’s “Maxton Hall”) is on board to write the project, executive producing alongside author Harrow, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Katy Rozelle and Lea Cuello.
“The Everlasting” is a time-loop fantasy about a female knight, Sir Una Everlasting, whose legend built a nation, and a not-so-heroic historian sent back through time.
Per the logline: “Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children’s books and recruiting posters ― but her life as it truly happened has been forgotten. Centuries later, Owen Mallory ― failed soldier, struggling scholar ― falls in love with the tale of Una Everlasting. Her story takes him to war, to the archives ― and then into the past itself. Una and Owen are tangled together in time, bound to retell the same story over and over again, no matter what it costs. But that story always ends the same way. If they want to rewrite Una’s legend ― if they want to tell a different story — they’ll have to rewrite history itself.”
“The Everlasting” TV adaptation hails from Universal Global Television. Ferraro, whose credits also include “Dark,” is next set to create and showrun “Powerless,” a YA romantasy trilogy for Amazon MGM Studios. Harrow is also the author of “The Ten Thousand Doors of January,” “The Once and Future Witches” and “Starling House.”
Harrow is repped by Circle Management + Production and Kate McKean at the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency. Ferraro is repped by Circle Management + Production and Jackoway, Austen Tyreman.
Should “The Everlasting” be ordered to series, it would join Netflix’s slate of book adaptations that also includes “The Queen’s Gambit,” “Bridgerton” and “Leave the World Behind.”
