Meera Menon, the director behind episodes of Ms. Marvel, The Magicians, Westworld, Outlander, and For All Mankind, has been tapped to direct a feature adaptation of Naomi Novik’s A Deadly Education, the first book in Novik’s Scholomance Trilogy.
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According to Deadline, Universal Pictures has also hired Emily Carmichael (Jurassic World Dominion, Pacific Rim: Uprising) and Shantha Susman to write the screenplay adaptation.
A Deadly Education centers around a student named El at a magic school called the Scholomance, where the student body has an extremely high death rate. El, who has a magical parents (her father died tragically), has magic abilities that tend toward the dark side. While at school, she must grapple with her black magic abilities while trying to stay alive through graduation. Novik’s second and third books in the Scholomance trilogy—The Last Graduate and The Golden Enclaves—have also been published and are available for your reading pleasure.
We first heard about Universal picking up the rights to A Deadly Education back in May 2020. Like many things, the adaptation seemed to have stalled a bit during the pandemic, but with a director and writing team on board, the odds become increasingly higher that the film version of Novik’s Scholomance will make its way to the big screen. Let’s just hope the screenplay doesn’t veer too much into the realm of storytelling we found in Jurassic World Dominion.
No news yet on any casting or when the project will go into production.
