Starz develops romantasy The Wolf King with Tanya Saracho

Starz has acquired the rights to Lauren Palphreyman’s romantic fantasy trilogy The Wolf King and put it into active development as a drama series. Vida creator Tanya Saracho is attached as showrunner and executive producer, with Palphreyman set to executive produce.

The network has optioned all three books, giving itself the multi-season runway that served Outlander so well. The Wolf King follows Aurora, a captive princess abducted by a brooding werewolf alpha and plunged into a bloodthirsty war between humankind and her feral captors, where a lethal love triangle forces her to decide whether she is a prize to be claimed or the author of her own fate.

Palphreyman self-published the first book in 2023, followed by the Sunday Times bestseller The Night Prince in 2025, and the trilogy’s closer, The Wolf Queen, arrives in November.

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