Netflix was made for, “Let’s let the book be what it wants to be when it becomes a visual medium.” When they pitched it to me, they were like, “We’re envisioning this as a universe.” It’s exciting. The cool thing about a streamer like Netflix, which is breaking down the boundaries between film and television and what we can and can’t do, is it was sort of made for a book like this. There are single sentences in the book that could be an entire season of television, that we just blow right past. Remarkably, Shonda, Matt, and Netflix just stepped up like, “Hey, we know how to do this.” It’s very early days, in development, but I believe the plan is to launch it as a movie on Netflix, which can then spin off into multiple TV series.

This is definitely not a two-hour movie, but it feels bigger than the small-screen, too.” I went into the process a little bit on edge - I was concerned that people wouldn’t see it the way I was seeing it. When it did come time to think about selling it to Hollywood, I was like, “I don’t know how this is going to work. It sounds like the plan is to release the story as a movie and then continue the story and world building through an episodic series or multiple series.īlake Crouch addressed the potential format in an interview: It’s planned as a feature movie and television series (possibly, multiple series). What format will it be? Will the Recursion adaptation be a Movie or a Series? Crouch also authored the Wayward Pines Trilogy which was adapted into the television show Wayward Pines (2015-2016). Recursion was published in June 2019, though the film rights were acquired nearly a year before that. See the Full Summary and Review of Recursion from The Bibliofile. Recursion by Blake Crouch is about a scientist who creates technology that has the power to change time and reality, giving people the ability to go back and re-do parts of their lives. Recursion Netflix Movie + Series: What We Knowīy Jennifer Marie Lin on Aug 2nd, 2019 (Last Updated Aug 2nd, 2019)

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