Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Bestselling author Hugh Howey’s novel Half Way Home is in the works for the small screen.
Alex Kurtzman’s Secret Hideout and CBS Television Studios, where Kurtzman is under a deal, have optioned rights to the book to develop as a television series.
Half Way Home is a gritty tale of a group of kids who awaken on a distant planet to their colony ship ablaze and most of the contingent dead.
Having only received half their training, they must conquer an entire planet, but first, they must survive each other. In this story, Hugh Howey fuses the best of young adult fantasy with the piercing social commentary of speculative fiction.
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