A Darker Shade of Magic (movie)

***A Darker Shade of Magic*** is a movie based on *A Darker Shade of Magic* by V. E. Schwab. Sony Pictures and Gerard Butler's production company G-BASE have acquired the rights to adapt the book.

## Production

On February 3, 2016, it was announced that Gerard Butler's production company G-BASE acquired the rights to adapt the *Shades of Magic* series as a limited TV series consisting of ten or twelve episodes.

With help from producer Danielle Robinson, V. E. Schwab had already written the pilot script. However, a year later, on February 24, 2017, it was announced that a movie would be produced instead, and that Sony Pictures won the movie rights, beating Fox 2000, eOne, and Lionsgate. With the format change, Schwab has become one of the producers of the movie alongside Robinson, Alan Siegel, and Neal Moritz. Toby Ascher from Original Productions is the executive producer, and Executive Matthew Milam and Sanford Panitch, the president of Sony Pictures, are set to oversee production.

On September 23, 2019, Schwab had an extensive and quite successful meeting with the movie's screenwriter.

On October 3, 2019, the movie's screenwriter was announced: Derek Kolstad, the creator of the *John Wick* franchise.

Schwab and her movie team are currently in negotiations with a director.

There is the possibility that *A Gathering of Shadows* and *A Conjuring of Light* may be adapted as movies as well.

## Trivia

* A script for the movie was already written, and V. E. Schwab stated it is "magical."
* Schwab went out to Los Angeles to meet with producer Danielle Robinson to discuss the project. While in Los Angeles, Robinson gifted Schwab an antique map of London.
* The scene Schwab is most excited to see in the movie is the one where Lila creates another Kell and makes it do a strip tease before it attempts to kill her.

## References

1. ↑ "This does NOT mean you will see a movie in theaters. It's out of my power to promise that. BUT it's still moving through the doors!"
(V. E. Schwab on Twitter)
2. ↑ "NO [THE MOVIE] IS NOT [COMING] IT IS STILL JUST A TWINKLE IN SOME STUDIO EXEC'S EYE. TRUST NOTHING UNTIL YOU HAVE POPCORN."
(V. E. Schwab on Twitter)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "V.E. Schwab's *A Darker Shade of Magic* Is Changing Direction, Now Headed to the Big Screen!" — Tor
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "Gerard Butler, Neal Moritz Team to Adapt Fantasy Novel 'A Darker Shade of Magic' (Exclusive)" — Hollywood Reporter
5. ↑ "[The adaptation] changed about a year and a half ago!"
(V. E. Schwab on Twitter)
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "V.E. Schwab's *A Darker Shade of Magic* is Being Adapted for Television!" — Tor
7. ↑ "I wrote my first pilot several years ago, for Shades of Magic, before it eventually sold for film (with the brilliant Derek Kolstad writing the screenplay)"
(V. E. Schwab on Instagram)
8. ↑ "I was already with the incredible folks at G-Base. Now We've added Toby + Neal at Original, and the team at Sony, with Matt Milam at helm."
(V. E. Schwab on Twitter)
9. ↑ "Spent almost 3 hours talking with the SHADES OF MAGIC screenwriter today, and my heart is full of so much joy and fear and hope."
(V. E. Schwab on Twitter)
10. ↑ "'John Wick' Writer Derek Kolstad to Adapt 'A Darker Shade of Magic' for Sony (EXCLUSIVE)" — Variety
11. ↑ "Secrets, Secrets, are no fun" — V. E. Schwab on Instagram
12. ↑ "today has brought me an amazing ADSOM script treatment"
(V. E. Schwab on Twitter)
13. ↑ "So many steps in the process, and any one of them can be the last, BUT I recently read the script treatment and holy hell it is magical."
(V. E. Schwab on Twitter)
14. ↑ "BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE ADSOM TV DEAL!" — V. E. Schwab on Wordpress
15. ↑ "if you had one particular scene you would be most excited to have on the big screen from Shade of Magic series, what would it be?" — "Definitely the scene where Lila makes a conjured Kell do a strip tease and then it tries to kill her."
(V. E. Schwab on Twitter)