Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda is teaming with Pat Rothfuss to serve
as a creative producer on the upcoming film and television adaptations of the author's
best-selling fantasy book series The Kingkiller Chronicles.
In addition to acting as a creative producer, Miranda, who recently wrote
original music for Disney's Moana, will also head the musical development, and
is expected to both write and compose original songs for the project.
"Pat Rothfuss' Kingkiller books are among the
most read and re-read in our home. It's a world you want to spend lifetimes in,
as his many fans will attest. Pat also writes about the act of making music more beautifully
than any novelist I've ever read," said Miranda.
Transformers 5 writer Lindsey
Beer is in charge of adapting the first novel in the series, The Name of the
Wind.
The book is a "riveting first-person narrative of a young man who
grows to be the most notorious magician his world has ever seen. From his
childhood in a troupe of traveling players, two years spent as a near-feral
orphan in a crime- ridden city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to
enter a legendary school of magic, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that transports readers into the body and mind of a
wizard. It is a high-action novel written with a poet’s hand, a powerful
coming-of-age story of a magically gifted young man, told through his eyes: to
read this book is to be the hero."
The Name of the Wind was first
published in 2007 and originated a literary franchise that has sold more than
10 million copies.
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