Hulu is nearing a deal to secure rights to George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards series per The Hollywood Reporter.
Hulu and Universal Cable Productions are near a multi-series deal for the sci-fi superhero franchise. A writers room is about to open for both series that will be written and executive produced by The Secret Circle creator, Andrew Miller, who has an overall deal with UCP. Both series will create a Wild Cards shared universe for the streaming network. Melinda Snodgrass, Vince Gerardis and Martin will executive produce multiple possible Wild Cards series.
Wild Cards is a shared universe of anthologies, mosaic novels and stand-alone stories written by an assortment of over 40 authors and edited by Martin and co-editor Melinda Snodgrass per Variety. Wild Cards consists of 27 books so far. Variety notes the idea behind the book series hails from Martin's experience as a gamemaster for the roleplaying game of Superworld.
This marks Martin's third small screen adaptation following Game of Thrones (and it's subsequent prequels/spinoffs) and Syfy's upcoming Nightflyers.
Andrew Miller will be scripting the pilot(s) for Hulu, and will serve as showrunner for the series. A huge fan of comic books and supers in general, and Wild Cards in particular, Andrew has been living and breathing Wild Cards for the past few months, and devouring the books one after another.
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