It seems that adaptations continue to be the popular thing in Hollywood, as Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner’s These Broken Stars just got picked up for TV.

If you follow Book Hype, Hypable’s very own book podcast, you’ll be familiar with These Broken Stars, as we recently chose it to be the next book we read for the month for January. If you’re not familiar with the novel, check out the synopsis below:

It’s a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone.

Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more trouble than they’re worth. But with only each other to rely on, Lilac and Tarver must work together, making a tortuous journey across the eerie, deserted terrain to seek help.

Then, against all odds, Lilac and Tarver find a strange blessing in the tragedy that has thrown them into each other’s arms. Without the hope of a future together in their own world, they begin to wonder—would they be better off staying here forever?

Everything changes when they uncover the truth behind the chilling whispers that haunt their every step. Lilac and Tarver may find a way off this planet. But they won’t be the same people who landed on it.

The TV adaptation of the novel will have four executive producers: actor, writer, director, and producer Eric Balfour; producer Stephanie Varella, founder with Balfour of Off the Grid Entertainment, an independent film production company; former NBC president Warren Littlefield; and Martin Berneman, founder of the entertainment management company Precision Entertainment.

Balfour currently stars in SyFy TV’s Haven, and was immediately drawn to the idea of adapting These Broken Stars when his producing partners mentioned it as a possibility. He states, “Television is the perfect format to take the characters from this world and put them on a screen. You couldn’t do it as a movie, since there wouldn’t be enough time to watch the metamorphoses of these characters. We’re very lucky to live in a time when television is pushing all the boundaries. There isn’t another medium out there that allows you to live with characters in such depth.”

And although Balfour himself is an actor and the authors think he could play a fantastic Tarver, he passed on the part. “I think at a certain point in the story we’ll meet another character I may be able to bring to life even better than I could Tarver. I think it’s going to be a huge challenge to find the right actor to play that role. He has to have an innocence but also has to have a strength and security. There are lots of confident young actors, but Tarver is more than just confident. My friend Ben Foster, who’s an incredible actor, is the type who I’d want to play Tarver.”

Balfour and the rest of the executive producers are still in the process of finding the right home for the adaptation, and we’ll be sure to bring you any news regarding this new TV series.

These Broken Stars is the first in a trilogy of love stories written by Kaufman and Spooner. Each novel will follow a different couple through space, the tagline for the series being “The Starbound Trilogy: Three worlds. Three love stories. One enemy.” The second novel in the series, This Shattered World, will be published later this year.

Be sure to watch out for Book Hype’s discussion of These Broken Stars, which will be released next week.