To get a better handle on the current situation in which we find ourselves, SYFY WIRE turned to Chuck Wendig, the prolific writer behind 2019's Wanderers. In these trying times, we can focus on the negative aspects or come together as a species in order to save our collective hide. Movie theaters have closed their doors, film and television productions are indefinitely delayed, and everyone is partaking in 'social distancing' by staying home. Meanwhile, I guess I should write that sequel now, huh?ĭon’t forget, you can nab Wanderers if you haven’t read it yet:ī, Indiebound, Amazon, and more.The coronavirus pandemic has totally upended the world as we know it. More news to come, and will share when I can. Them’s the news! News I’ve been sitting on, in part, for almost a year, now. But hope is on the wind, like a white fungus that will colonize your face and brain!Īnyway. Things happen! And the exact future of TV and film production remains unsettled. I knew we were in good hands with QC and this only sweetens the sauce.

I’m hopeful, because hot damn, what a team. The work now is to shop it around to to find the right network/streaming partner for it to see if they’ll bring Glen and Lionsgate’s vision of the book to light.

On the TV side of things, the most vital of caveats applies: it doesn’t mean it’s coming to your TV anytime soon. (Sidenote, the sequel is tentatively titled Wayward.) Then - literally on the plane ride out to begin my book tour for it last July! - the entire story for the sequel came to me wholesale, and that was when I knew there was something there, and more tale to tell. Sales, as it turned out, were good - the book was a national bestseller, and has outsold everything else I’ve written with the exception of the first couple Star Wars books.

Meaning, okay, yes, I wrote the book to be a contained story, start-to-finish, but it was one that could conceivably have a robust “second chapter” if I found the right angle, the right reason, the right throughline. Well, listen, I always said this is a story I’d continue if it felt right, and if sales bore that out. Lionsgate is the perfect choice, too, and are committed to the show in a big way, along with QC. Obviously, I’m geeked as hell about this - Glen is amazing, honestly, and gets the book and has dug down to its marrow for what the show could look like. That news is a many-headed hydra of awesomeness, and consists of three beats: first, QC has partnered with Lionsgate Television for the project second, Glen Mazzara (The Shield! The Walking Dead! Dark Tower TV show that should’ve been picked up but wasn’t!) is on as showrunner and third, the book is getting a sequel in 2022! So, Deadline got to break some very cool news.

Wanderers by chuck wendig