James Islington’s best-selling fantasy e-book collection, Hierarchy, has landed at Sony for a function movie adaptation.
Because the 12 months winds down and Hollywood begins its annual vacation exodus, Sony Footage has pulled off certainly one of 2025’s largest e-book offers by securing the film rights to James Islington’s Hierarchy collection, in accordance with The Hollywood Reporter. There’s presently no producer or director linked to the venture, although Peter Kang and Louie Provost are managing the venture on behalf of the studio.
Set in a magic-laced society harking back to the Roman Empire, the Hierarchy collection facilities on Vis, a younger man concealing a deadly secret who’s drawn into probing a suspicious loss of life whereas infiltrating a dominant ruling energy that drains the populace’s psychological and bodily vitality, referred to as the Will.
As Vis digs deeper, he unravels plots that thrust him right into a insurrection able to shaking the whole world order. What begins as a bid to remain alive escalates into an enormous battle towards a system constructed on exploitation, the place “loyalty, energy, and fact are all weaponized,” in accordance with the official synopsis.
Sony touchdown the film rights comes simply because the Hierarchy collection’ second e-book, The Energy of the Few, was launched on November 11 and, fueled by buzz on social media, debuted at No. 1 on the New York Occasions bestseller listing. The e-book additionally topped bestseller lists in Australia, James Islington’s residence nation.
The primary e-book within the Hierarchy collection, The Will of the Many, was launched in 2023 and received quite a few awards, together with the 12 months’s Aurealis Award for Finest Fantasy Novel, honoring excellence in Australian fantasy.
Along with the Hierarchy collection, James Islington can be the writer of The Licanius Trilogy, which cemented his repute as a serious voice in fantasy with a loyal following. He initially self-published the primary installment, The Shadow of What Was Misplaced, in 2014 earlier than securing a standard publishing deal for the following two books, An Echo of Issues to Come (2017) and The Gentle of All That Falls (2019). Up to now, James Islington has offered over 2.5 million complete books.