Netflix's Quicksilver: Callie Hart Gives Script Update, Says She'd Love Robert Eggers As Director, Wants "Something Dark and Twisted and Weird"

Callie Hart, the writer of the fashionable acheronian romance phantasy book, Quicksilver, gave an update to Netflix's movie adaptation of the aforesaid name, portion connected her publication circuit successful Melbourne, Australia yesterday, promoting her upcoming sequel, Brimstone.

Hart, who besides serves arsenic Executive Producer connected Quicksilver, confirmed there's been question connected the movie arsenic they present person a script, and are looking for a director.

"We person a publication and it's a bully one," Hart said. "And we're astir to commencement reasoning astir who volition beryllium the director, which is simply a truly amusive signifier to beryllium at."

When asked who her imagination manager would be, Hart said Robert Eggers oregon Guillermo del Toro. She said she wants "something acheronian and twisted and weird. I don't privation thing normal."

However, Hart did elaborate and accidental the sanction and past projects of the manager are not arsenic large of a interest overall, "I conscionable privation idiosyncratic who has a wide vision, and who is going to enactment existent to the communicative and is going to contiguous it successful a really, fricken chill mode that isn't going to beryllium turned into a meme. That's the requirements."

Hart besides teased the writer for Quicksilver, saying "You've decidedly watched shows she's written, and she is conscionable phenomenal. She's got a truly large consciousness of wit that's recovered it's mode into the script, too."

Elizabeth Cantillon, known for Alien: Romulus, and The Love Hypothesis, is acceptable to producer. Hart said she was drawn to her arsenic the shaper owed to her quality to marque truly gritty, dark, and edgy stories. "I spoke with a batch of producers earlier I chose Elizabeth, and she was the 1 – our imaginativeness was truthful aligned connected it. How she wanted to correspond the story, I was like, she's the lone pistillate for this job."

Quicksilver sold implicit 1 cardinal books wrong six months of it's publishing successful December 2024, with popularity continuing to prime up connected BookTok crossed aggregate societal media platforms. It's the archetypal publication successful the Fae & Alchemy trilogy, with the 2nd book, Brimstone, releasing connected November 18, 2025.

Quicksilver is simply a phantasy communicative with acheronian romance that follows Saeris, a young pistillate who's skilled with a sword and thievery, to a magical realm with fae warriors. She ends up gathering Kingfisher, a acheronian and broody fae warrior – the past idiosyncratic who she would similar to walk immoderate clip with – and becomes caught successful the mediate of a prolonged warfare betwixt the fae and an force successful the realm.

The phantasy romance publication genre picked up immense popularity implicit the past fewer years, to the constituent wherever studios person scooped up the movie rights for adaptations crossed the genre.

Amazon has the rights to Fourth Wing for a TV series, which conscionable recovered it's caller showrunner, Sony is processing a Blood and Ash TV series, Hulu had the rights to the bid that is known for kicking each of this disconnected – A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas – but reportedly dropped it. Sources told Variety that Maas volition beryllium buying it elsewhere, and aft seeing a java day betwixt Maas and Margot Robbie, fans person been speculating that it would beryllium scooped up by her accumulation company, LuckyChap Entertainment. Robbie, who is simply a immense instrumentality of Maas books, told Bazaar that she would "see what she tin do" astir making an adaptation happen.

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