Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Set in the not-too-distant future, everyone wears virtual reality eyeglasses which connect their brains to a master computer in order to play a game called Warcross.Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Warcross Author Marie Lu Lu created her own real and virtual world for her latest novel, Warcross, a science fiction thriller. It's just really, really cool and beautiful.' 'So they're buildings that don't make sense. 'It's a game where you walk around structures figuring out puzzles based on Escher-like geometry,' Lu explains. ( You can see photos here.) A section of the walls and floor is painted with the geometric patterns featured in one of Lu's favorite video games, Monument Valley. The apartment she shares with her video game-artist husband is dotted with vintage NASA posters, neat stacks of comic books, and a carefully curated collection of stuffed animals. Her dystopian trilogy 'Legend' and her fantasy trilogy 'The Young Elites' both became best-sellers.

'We wanted it to be playful,' she says.īut writer's block doesn't seem to be much of a problem for the 33-year-old science fiction and fantasy novelist. In her modernist loft in LA's arts district, author Marie Lu has a modular workspace and lounge area whimsically dubbed The Writer's Block.

Marie Lu would personally like to see Ben Barnes play Metias ( June's brother).Marie Lu says it's fitting - given her tendency to write dark, dystopian novels - that she was born in the year 1984.

Executive producers of the series are Sturman, Jamie Lai, and Samuel Yenjeu Ha. Marie Lu will be writing the pilot of the series alongside Lindsay Sturman, known for her work on Cult, Battle Creek, and Teen Wolf. This was mentioned by Michael Schaub in November 2021. In April 2020 on an interview, Marie Lu said that they are trying their best to make the movie but there's still a chance that it will be canceled, which was the case in this situation.Īccording to Kirkus Marie Lu’s ‘Legend’ will be adapted for series. BCDF Pictures set Joseph Mushynski to write a new script based on the first novel. It has had quite a few delays but, in 2018, it was announced that BCDF Pictures had the film rights to the book, though it has not yet been announced whether production has started or whether there would be a movie at all. Legend is an upcoming film about the first book of the Legend Trilogy.

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