Your purchase helps support NPR programming. One of my favourite books like The Overstory is Greenwood by Michael Christie, a gorgeous multi-generational novel about trees, our changing climate, the twists and turns of fortune, and doing the right thing.Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Overstory Author Richard Powers Start by reading or re-reading The Overstory, and continue with these similarly beautiful books about trees. But there are plenty of fantastic books to read in the meantime. What to read while you’re waiting for The Overstory on NetflixĪt this stage, we have no real idea of when The Overstory might be released on Netlix. Weiss are also writers and executive producers on the Netflix series adaptation of the sci-fi book trilogy The Three-Body Problem, as part of a nine-figure deal they signed with Netflix in 2019. “A handful of disparate people learn how to see that world and are drawn into its unfolding catastrophe.”Īt a time when news sites quip “another day, another cancellation from Netflix,” fingers crossed we’ll hear more updates soon about The Overstory series.ĭavid Benioff and D.B. “It tells the story of a world alongside ours that is vast, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive and almost invisible to us,” the announcement on Deadline shared in February 2021. Netflix describes the novel as “a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of the natural world.” Richard Powers is set to serve as co-executive producer.Īccording to The Hollywood Reporter in 2021, Jackman is reportedly a fan of the novel, as is Netflix co-CEO Reed Hastings. Hugh Jackman will also executive produce along with Bernie Caulfield of Benioff and Weiss’s Bighead Littlehead production banner. Perhaps we can expect The Overstory to come to screens in 2023-2024, but hopefully we’ll find out more about the series soon. There’s no current expected release date or production date. It could go either way with them, he said.) (When I told my husband this, he replied oh, god. Weiss, best known as the creators of Game of Thrones. The job of adapting The Overstory is in experienced hands: those of David Benioff and D.B. But here’s what we know about The Overstory adaptation on Netflix so far to start setting our expectations… What we know about The Overstory on Netflix
How will it be with The Overstory? Right now, it’s too early to find out. Hearing that one of your favourite books will be adapted to the screen can be both a blessing and a curse, hingeing on the success and faithfulness of the adaptation – but also on your idea of what’s accurate according to your own imagination. And after finding out that Netflix will adapt The Overstory to a series (announced in February 2021), I hope this will only add to my love for the book. Since reading the Pulitzer Prize winner of 2019, I’ve never quite looked at trees in the same way.
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