Jennifer Fox is joining forces with A24 to bring Ursula Le Guin’s magnum opus to the small screen. The Oscar-nominated “Michael Clayton” producer is developing a TV series based on Le Guin’s “Earthsea” series with A24 financing the project, “which will be shopped to networks soon,” according to Deadline.

Fox optioned the book series last year. “Before she died in January 2018, Le Guin had given the producer her blessing to turn her work into a series of films,” the source notes. Now re-envisioned as a TV series, the project will be produced by Fox.

“Earthsea” was previously adapted into a 2004 Sci Fi Channel miniseries co-written by Le Guin.

Composed of five novels and eight short stories, the “Earthsea” series kicked off in 1968 with the publication of “A Wizard of Earthsea” and concluded with the 2018 short story “Firelight.” The fantasy is set in an archipelago of hundreds of island. “Most of its characters are people of color, and the emphasis is on understanding nature and human nature, not possessing power over them,” the source notes.

“Ursula Le Guin is a literary legend with a huge fan base and her work has been translated into practically every written language on the globe,” said Fox, whose other producing credits include “Nightcrawler” and “We Need to Talk About Kevin.” “She is second only to Tolkien in influence in this genre, and before she died last year, she agreed to put her most beloved work in my hands. This project is, therefore, a sacred trust and priority for me as well as an opportunity to create an iconic piece of American culture.”

Added Theo Downes-Le Guin, Le Guin’s son, “Ursula long hoped to see an adaptation of ‘Earthsea’ that represented a collaboration between her ideas and words and the visual storytelling of others. I feel very fortunate that, with Jennifer Fox and A24, we have a bedrock of producing and development experience that can bring the sweeping narrative and moral truths of my mother’s work to screen.”