For over five years now, Peacock has been dead set on adapting Victoria Aveyard‘s best-selling YA fantasy novel Red Queen into a television series. Things seemed primed for the one-hour drama to move much quicker than it ultimately has, with Elizabeth Banks attached to both direct and appear in a major supporting role and former Arrow showrunner Beth Schwartz joining the author in co-writing. However, their attempts at capturing the dystopian vision of America, where a superpowered monarchy rules over the masses without abilities of their own, have not borne fruit yet. Updates have been few and far between, though development is still ongoing, with Banks sticking around for the long haul as a producer.
There may be no telling when viewers will see Mare Barrow’s story brought to life, but that’s not slowing Aveyard down. She currently has a new adult fantasy novel, Tempest, due to be published in September and billed as an “epic adventure of love and betrayal, amid a brutal war for the high seas” set towards the end of the Golden Age of Piracy. It’ll follow Cat Rose, a former noblewoman turned queen of a pirate tavern on the Lyrian Sea, who is caught between her old life and her current reality when The Meridian Empire brings the weight of its navy down upon the marauders on the ocean. One by one, the pirate empire begins to fall, but they struggle to bring in one particularly slippery sailor, Valerian Kane, who might be the only hope of rallying the remaining buccaneers against the empire. Desperate to quash any hope of rebellion, they approach Cat with a proposition to find and haul in the only man she’s ever loved, or hang for her crimes.
At its heart, Tempest is a story of choice between love and duty that will force Cat to embrace rebellion or settle for survival. Although it’s not even out yet and Red Queen hasn’t even got off the ground, it’s now also set to get the television treatment. A recent report confirmed that Chernin Entertainment has acquired the rights to adapt the fantasy novel for the small screen, though exactly where it will land is unknown at this time. No creatives are attached, but Peter Chernin and Tracey Cook are on board as executive producers alongside Aveyard, while their studio’s Rachel Moore will oversee the project.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
01
You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
02
In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
03
What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
04
How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
05
Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
06
Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
07
Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
08
What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
Chernin Entertainment Has a Stellar Track Record of Success Across Genres
2026 has already been quite a successful year for Chernin. The studio is coming off producing a red-hot hit in Kane Parsons‘ horror feature Backrooms based on his popular YouTube series. Along with rave reviews, it’s become the latest example of online creators taking Hollywood by storm, scoring a staggering $331 million on a budget of just $10 million. Aside from that, the banner has found success on streaming with the Netflix smash Apex and the new Yahya Abdul-Mateen II-led take on Man on Fire. Chernin is also behind Jason Momoa‘s Apple TV success, Chief of War from last year, and his previous dystopian vehicle, See. With their partnership, there’s hope that Tempest won’t be caught in the same lengthy development process that has kept Red Queen from reaching the screen.
Stay tuned here at Collider for more on the future of the Tempest adaptation and Aveyard’s Red Queen series.
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