Netflix has successfully acquired the rights to the fantasy romance novel titled, Quicksilver, which was written by bestselling author Callie Hart. The mega streamer won the project in an intense bidding war for a reported seven-figure range deal.
The project will be produced by The Cantillon Company’s Elizabeth Cantillon, who previously worked with Netflix on the the film adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion novel. Hart has also signed on to serve as an executive producer. At the moment, it currently has no writer and director attached to it yet.
What is Quicksilver about?
Published last June, Quicksilver is described as an enemies-to-lovers fantasy romance about a human rebel, who gets transported into another realm, where she meets a handsome Fae warrior named Kingfisher. The novel gained popularity through TikTok. Hart is expected to release two follow-up sequels, with the second installment set to launch in the fall of 2025.
“Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen’s reservoirs for as long as she can remember,” reads the official synopsis (via Deadline). “When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently reopens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice and snow. The Fae have always been the stuff of myth, of legend, of nightmares…but it turns out they’re real, and Saeris has landed herself right in the middle of a centuries-long conflict that might just get her killed. The first of her kind to tread the frozen mountains of Yvelia in over a thousand years, Saeris mistakenly binds herself to Kingfisher, a handsome Fae warrior, who has secrets and nefarious agendas of his own. He will use her Alchemist’s magic to protect his people, no matter what it costs him… or her. Kingfisher’s past is murky. His attitude stinks. And he’s the only way Saeris is going to make it home.”
