A television adaptation of The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow is in development at Netflix. The fantasy time-travel novel centers on the knight Una Everlasting and the historian Owen Mallory, born in different centuries who find their lives intertwined through time as they loop through it, over and over again.
According to Variety, Daphne Ferraro, who was head writer on the German series Maxton Hall and is set to showrun Lauren Roberts’ Powerless adaptation for Amazon MGM Studios, is on board to write The Everlasting adaptation. Variety also shared the official logline for the project, which hews closely to the book:
Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for Queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children’s books and recruiting posters—but her life as it truly happened has been forgotten. Centuries later, Owen Mallory—failed soldier, struggling scholar—falls in love with the tale of Una Everlasting. Her story takes him to war, to the archives—and then into the past itself. Una and Owen are tangled together in time, bound to retell the same story over and over again, no matter what it costs. But that story always ends the same way. If they want to rewrite Una’s legend—if they want to tell a different story—they’ll have to rewrite history itself.
The project is still in its early days—Netflix hasn’t picked it up for a series order yet—so no news on casting or if/when we’ll see the adaptation on the streamer.
