Hail Reaper! Paramount has acquired film rights to Pierce Brown’s New York Times bestselling sci-fi book series Red Rising, enlisting Francis Lawrence to direct an adaptation of the first installment, Deadline can confirm. Key points and original sources are listed below.

• Hail Reaper! The rights to the popular “Red Rising” book series have been picked up at Paramount with “Hunger Games” director Francis Lawrence attached to a movie based on the first novel. Justin Rhodes will write the script, based on the original 2014 novel b...S1

• Paramount has acquired film rights to Pierce Brown’s New York Times bestselling sci-fi book series Red Rising, enlisting Francis Lawrence to direct an adaptation of the first installment, Deadline can confirm. Justin Rhodes, a writer-producer with credits like...S2

• Justin Rhodes will pen the script based on Pierce Brown's best-selling sci-fi novel.S3