News Skyward Brandon Sanderson’s Sci-Fi Novel Skyward Being Adapted Into a TV Series The Cytoverse is coming to television By Matthew Byrd | Published on May 20, 2026 Image: Charlie Bowater (artist) Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Charlie Bowater (artist) Brandon Sanderson’s Cytoverse will make the leap to television as Deadline reports that the author’s hit sci-fi novel Skyward is being adapted into a TV series. Sanderson will reportedly write the pilot for the just-announced series alongside Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen (who previously served as the showrunners for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.). The show will be produced by Tomorrow Studios, who you may know as the studio behind Netflix’s hit One Piece live-action series. Tomorrow Studios’ CEO Marty Adelstein had this to say about the project. “Brandon has created a thrilling universe where courage, curiosity and determination to challenge what we think can change the fate of entire worlds. The vision that he, Jed and Maurissa have for a television adaptation is ‘defiant to the end’.” Skyward stars a teenage girl named Spensa who lives on the ruined world of Detritus with a band of shipwrecked survivors. Spensa dreams of becoming a pilot in the society’s defense force but must overcome her family’s tarnished legacy in order to be accepted into the academy. As noted above, Skyward is the first entry in the Cytoverse: a series of stories that exist in an imagined version of our own future in which various individuals across many species have access to powerful psionic abilities known as Cytonics. So far, the Cytoverse consists of the Skyward series and the short story Defending Elysium. There’s no word on any plans to adapt the subsequent books in that series or Defending Elysium at this time. It’s a busy time for Brandon Sanderson, to say the least. As we previously reported, the author recently signed a massive deal with Apple TV to write and produce shows and movies based on The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn series. At present, the plan is for The Stormlight Archive to be adapted into a TV series while Mistborn will be turned into feature films. The Skyward adaptation appears to be separate from those other projects, and there has been no indication that this new series will also air on Apple TV at this time. We’ll bring you further information on this story as it becomes available.[end-mark] The post Brandon Sanderson’s Sci-Fi Novel <i>Skyward</i> Being Adapted Into a TV Series appeared first on Reactor.