A popular fantasy book series is being adapted for television by a team that includes a Central New York writer.
Deadline reports Jeff Huang and Carl Choi have launched a genre-focused content company called Six Studios that has acquired the TV rights to the first six books in the international fantasy book series “The Riftwar Cycle” by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts. The “Riftwar” saga, which began in 1982 with Feist’s “Magician: Apprentice,” has more than 30 books and short stories that sold more than 20 million copies.
Syracuse resident Nick Bernadone, whose credits include “Fear the Walking Dead” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” is attached to write the adaptation along with Hannah Friedman (Disney+’s “Willow,” “Obi-Wan Kenobi”) and Jacob Pinion (”Fear the Walking Dead”).
Choi and Huang will produce through Six Studios, with former Lucasfilm executives Kiri Hart (”Rogue One”) and Stephen Feder (”Solo”) serving as consultants.
“Between Hannah, Jacob, Nick, Kiri and Stephen, we have an incomparable dream team to bring both sides of the beloved Riftwar Cycle together and embrace the brilliant stories and characters that Raymond and Janny have created,” Choi said in a statement.
According to Deadline, Riftwar is considered one of the best known pieces of fantasy intellectual property (IP) not yet adapted for the screen. The series follows multidimensional travelers through tears in the fabric of space-time called rifts; the first trilogy, “The Riftwar Saga,” centers on a teenage magician named Pug defending his world of Midkemia and was reportedly inspired by Feist’s love of “Dungeons & Dragons.”
Bernardone, who headlined the 2021 Syracuse International Film Festival, is a 2003 graduate of Jamesville-DeWitt High School that studied TV and digital film at SUNY Fredonia before pursuing a career in television in New York City. One of his first jobs was writing and editing web content for NBC’s “30 Rock,” earning him a Producer’s Guild of America award for outstanding digital series and an Emmy nomination for outstanding special class short-format video. He also wrote for the show’s Tracy Jordan (played by Tracy Morgan) character on social media, which was named one of Time magazine’s top 100 Twitter feeds.
Bernardone wrote two episodes of Netflix’s “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” and later became a staff writer for AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” penning six episodes. When the Covid-19 pandemic shifted writers to working remotely, Bernardone left Los Angeles to move back home with his family to Jamesville, N.Y., where he’s working on “The Riftwar Cycle” and headquarters his production company Hot Garbage Productions.
“It’s been a pretty amazing journey,” he said of his career in an interview with syracuse.com | The Post-Standard last year.
Additional details about “The Riftwar Cycle” TV series, including a cast and release date, have not been announced.
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