At the book's beginning, when an unidentified girl falls from the roof off Fuller's penthouse suite, things get interesting.įor comparison's sake, let's take a look at another popular young-adult novel series turned into TV series to get an idea of the sort of wait that fans may encounter.

Above all the hubbub and bustle, one of the teens, Avery Fuller, a human who is literally perfect - or at least genetically engineered to be that way - lives and longs for more. Mario Tama/Getty Images News/Getty ImagesĪs some background about The Thousandth Floor, the book tells the story of five teens living and working in a 22nd century world full of high-tech machinery and glamour - at least for the wealthy. If following this pattern, we might get a look at The Thousandth Floor as early as Fall 2017. The pilot would air, and if the show gets officially picked up by the network, they'll bang out production of the rest of the episodes usually in July - each episode takes about a week to shoot.

How long will it take to get a pilot going? According to a useful guide from Gizmodo's io9, networks typically pick up scripts around Halloween, begin casting around January, and then shoot in March.

Perhaps production has now started, but if so, has not been announced. According to Deadline, the pair previously worked together on Dawson's Creek. So far, producer Greg Berlanti ( Arrow, Flash, Everwood, and so much more) and creator Maggie Friedman ( Witches of East End, Eastwick, Related, and tons more as well) have a script commitment with Warner Bros. To figure out when it will premiere, let's consider what's known about TV production schedules. Variety reported in October 2015 that the almost-immediately popular New York Times bestseller would be getting the ABC TV series treatment. The novel, which dropped in August 2016, is the first part of a series about life in a futuristic Manhattan, where everyone lives in one giant tower. What is it about young adult novels that makes them so desirable to see on the big screen, or at least a bigger screen? This answer is unclear, but another question must also be answered - when will one of the latest YA novels turned television series come out? In other words, when will The Thousandth Floor hit TV screens? The book the series will be based on (also titled The Thousandth Floor) was written by debut author Katharine McGee.

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