Netflix Wins Rights to Fantasy Romance Novel Quicksilver

Netflix has acquired the rights to the fantasy romance novel titled, mercuryWritten by bestselling author Callie Hart. The streaming giant won the project in an intense bidding war for a seven-figure deal.

The project will be produced by Cantillon’s Elizabeth Cantillon, who previously worked with Netflix on the film adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion. Hart also signed on to serve as executive producer. At the moment, there is no writer-director attached to it yet.

What is Quicksilver?

Published last June, Quicksilver is described as an enemies-to-lovers fantasy romance about a human rebel who is transported to another world, where she meets a handsome Fae warrior named Kingfisher. The novel gained popularity through TikTok. Hart is expected to release two sequels, with the second part scheduled for release in the fall of 2025.

“Twenty-four-year-old Saris Vine is good at keeping secrets,” reads the official synopsis (via Delivery time). “When Saeris comes face to face with death itself, she inadvertently reopens a portal between worlds and is transported to a land of ice and snow. The Fae have always been the stuff of legend, legend, and nightmares…but it turns out they’re real, and Saeris has landed herself in the middle of a conflict… Lasting for centuries could kill her. The first of her kind to set foot on the frozen mountains of Ephelia in over a thousand years, Saeris mistakenly links herself to Kingfisher, a handsome Fae warrior, who has secrets. And nefarious agendas of his own. He will use her alchemist’s magic to protect his people, no matter what it costs him…or her.