Fantasy novel Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt is being adjusted to the television for Netflix by Chernin Entertainment that we have learned.
This series will be produced by Chernin Entertainment, which you might know as a production company behind the Fear Street film released on Netflix last year.
Published in September 2019, Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt was described as an amazing debut of contemporary fantasy about other London, the magical world hidden behind the crowded modern city we know.
You can read the Goodread description of the novel below:
“Alice Wyndham has been disturbed by the vision of the birds throughout his life … until the mysterious Crowley revealed that Alice was ‘Aviarist’ who was able to see Nightjars, magic birds who guarded the human soul. When his best friend was hit by a car, only Alice could find and Save absence.
With the help of Crowley, Alice traveled to Rookery, a hidden and magical alternative London to hone her newly discovered talents. But the intention of the faction on the destruction of a magical user will stop without being destroyed to destroy the new Aviarist. And does Crowley really work with him, or oppose it? Alice must risk everything to save her best friend – and uncover strange truth about himself. “
This project is currently in the development stage. At present it is not known when the series will start filming or when we can expect an official announcement about the series. There is no other name outside the role of Peter Chernin as an executive manufacturer currently attached to the project.
Chernin Entertainment mainly hit the overall agreement with Netflix back in 2020. As mentioned, their main output so far for Netflix has become a fear film that is on the 20th century fox before jumping. Appearing this year from them is Slumberland but they also have titles such as Mega Man, Luther, and the wicked in development.
Another series that is being developed actively at Chernin Entertainment for Netflix is a new political thriller series called madness. According to BTL, this new series is about the anchor news that witnessed the murder. He then became a chase target to maintain a politician agreement broadcast by politicians.