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The ‘Quicksilver’ Movie Is Headed to Netflix: All the Latest Adaptation Updates
This is not a drill, Saeris Fane and Kingfisher are coming to the big screen. Okay, the big screen in your living room or on your laptop, but Quicksilver is being made into a movie at Netflix. Deadline announced in early December that the streamer won the adaptation rights to Callie Hart’s dark romantasy bestseller with a seven-figure deal. The project is in development, which means we’ll hopefully start getting more and more updates in the new year.
Quicksilver is the first book in Hart’s planned Fae & Alchemy series. It took over BookTok earlier this year, landing the author a traditional publishing deal and a physical launch of the book in early December. The second book in the series will pick up where the first left off and is expected to hit bookstores and digital shops in fall 2025.
It’s still early days in the development process for the Quicksilver movie, but here is what we know so far.
Who is making the Quicksilver movie?
Netflix is making the movie with Elizabeth Cantillon heading up the development. Hart has also signed on as an executive producer and will help guide the adaptation to fruition.
When will the Quicksilver movie be released?
The honest answer is that it is too soon to tell. Development time varies from project to project, and material like Quicksilver will have a lot of moving parts. The first thing Netflix needs to do is hire a screenwriter and a director. Once those key players are set, determining a timeline will be much easier. Even if everything goes smoothly in development and they move quickly, you should not expect a Quicksilver movie until late 2026 or early 2027.
What is Quicksilver about?
Quicksilver is a dark romantasy series led by protagonist Saeris Fane, who is a pickpocket in the desert wasteland world of Zilvaren. When Saeris is apprehended by the corrupt queen’s guard after she steals one of their golden gauntlets, her metal manipulation powers help her open a portal — the quicksilver — to a fae kingdom. Upon her arrival in Yveria, Saeris is forced to work with the mercurial outcast Kingfisher to create relics that will allow his men to move through the quicksilver unharmed in exchange for getting home and saving the brother she left behind. As Saeris and Kingfisher’s tense partnership starts thawing into something more real, they realize both of their kingdoms, and everyone they love is at stake.
There are fae, witches, vampires and magical people of many kinds in Quicksilver, and the book is three chilis on the Swooon spicemeter.
Will the Quicksilver movie be spicy?
It will if Callie Hart has her way. The great news is that she is executive producing the film so she does have a lot of influence on how the movie is shaped. She shared in an interview with Swooon that maintaining the dark and adult nature of the book is her number one priority when it comes to this adaptation.
“This is a very graphic book in many different ways. It’s dark. It’s sexy. It has graphic content and violence in all kinds of different ways,” the author explained. “My main goal here is to make sure that the basis of the movie isn’t lost, that the book isn’t lost. I really want any adaptation to stay true to the story, for it to be dark and gritty and sexy and all of the things that readers fell in love with.”
Who is in the Quicksilver movie cast?
The movie is still too early in development to know who will play the lead parts, but we will be here with an update when they are announced. In the meantime, let us know who you have in your dream cast.
Should I read the Quicksilver book?
I mean, why wouldn’t you? The audiobook is also an excellent option (and absolutely counts as reading the book) just to hear the filthy things Kingfisher says to Saeris out loud. The worlds Hart creates in the book are also so rich that you’ll want to be acquainted with them and their mechanics before you watch the movie. The good news is you have plenty of time so you can read the book and get in on the fan casting and theories before the second book and the movie come out.
