FX has landed the rights to a New York Times writer's best-selling book. The network is adapting cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth's newly released nonfiction bookThis Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race, which chronicles the history of cyberwarfare and how the U.S.
became vulnerable to attack. The project is being described as afar-reaching drama series that grapples with the full scope of what the internet has become — a complex matrix within which all of humanity is inextricably interlinked.
Sources sayThe West Wingdirector-producer Tommy Schlamme, who worked with FX on The Americans and Snowfall, brought the book to the network.
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