With The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies bringing the curtain down on Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth saga, Warner Bros. is looking to fill the fantasy void by snapping up the rights to the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Dragonriders of Pern book series.
Dragonriders of Pern is set on a pre-industrial planet which is protected from Thread – deadly spores from a rogue planet that consume everything in their path – by giant, telepathic dragons and their riders. The saga was originally created by Anne McCaffrey back in 1968, and has since spanned 22 novels and two volumes of short stories.
Originally published July 30, 2014. Updated April 12, 2018.
