This is Just Like Magic! Syfy Hires Mike Cahill to Direct The Magicians Pilot

Syfy has just made me very happy.

The Hollywood Reporter had the exclusive news of director Mike Cahill getting hired for the gig. Cahill is screenwriter and director and while I haven’t seen his latest, I Origins, yet (though TMS reviewed the film and interviewed the director) his work with Brit Marling on Another Earth blew me away.

“We were impressed with Mike’s feature work and his passion for this material,” Bill McGoldrick, evp original content at Syfy told THR. “We are very excited that he will be the one bringing The Magicians to life.”

I was extremely excited when I first learned Lev Grossman’s fantasy series would be getting adapted. I will forever describe it as Harry Potter and the Chronicles of Narnia for adults though some say it’s way more than that. I’ve yet to read the third book in the series, The Magician’s Land so like, don’t spoil anything for me, pretty please.

I think the project has changed some since it was first announced but THR says John McNamara (who wrote episodes of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and more recently In Plain Sight) and Sera Gamble (Supernatural) will be writing the script and production will start later this year.

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Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."

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