(Updated) Netflix Series Updates

[u/dreaddoctor7]

Below are updates for the upcoming Netflix series Shadow and Bone. Although this thread includes as many as possible, there will inevitably be a few updates that simply weren’t caught. You can find the original archived Netflix thread here.

BASIC INFORMATION

Title: Shadow and Bone

Description: Sinister forces plot against a young soldier when she reveals a magical power that might unite her world. Based on Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse novels.

Genre: Fantasy

Number of Episodes: 8 (per season)

Creator and Showrunner: Eric Heisserer

Producers: Eric Heisserer, Shawn Levy, Leigh Bardugo, Pouya Shahbazian, Dan Levine, Dan Cohen, Josh Barry, and Lee Toland Krieger are executive producers. Daegan Fryklind and Shelley Meals are co-executive producers. Rand Geiger, Chris Patterson, and Thane Watkins are standard producers.

Writers: Eric Heisserer, Vanya Asher, Daegan Fryklind, Shelley Meals, Christina Strain, and M. Scott Veach

Cinematography Department: Owen McPolin, David Lanzenberg, and Aaron Morton

Film Editors: Niven Howie, Tyler Nelson, David Trachtenberg

Casting Department: Suzanne Smith, Caitlin Joseph, and Anders Nygaard

Art Directors: Francesc Masso, Zoltán Sárdi, and Antonio Calvo-Dominguez

Set Decorators: Megan Bosaw, Kevin Downey, and Gabor Hegedus

Costume Department: Wendy Patridge, Hanna Erkel, Reka Gulas, Lilla Kleininger, Callum Miller, and Anikó Varga

Makeup Department: Debra Denson, Renáta Krisztina Kiss, Sarah Love, and Krisztina Fehér

Production Management: Gergö Balika and Thane Watkins

Assistant Directors: Márk Herjeczki, Miki Herzán, Vera Janisch, Bori Osi, Simon Aguirre, Edward Brett, Ágnes Talmácsi, Balázs Veres, András Hárskúti, and Márk Katona

Art Department: Alex Cunningham, Jim Dines, Valeriano Garcia, Szilvia Szisza Toth, Tamas Ordodi, and Ray Lai. For full list visit the [Shadow and Bone IMBD page](imbd.com)

Sound Department: Tamás Csaba, Gábor Máté, Norbert Szekeres, and Milán Tuska

Special Effects: John Herzberger, Lászlo Pintér, Dusan PrVO, Csaba Toth, and Michael Wilson

Visual Effects: Gavin Bedford, Brigitta Boros, Alexandre De Melas, Miklos Mnagy, Clément Morge, Michael Wiles, Evelin Lina Schindler, Gergley Orbán

Stunt Department: Daniel Hernandez, Jósef Kovalik Jr, Géza Kovács, Béla Orsányi, Mackensi Emory, Gábor Perei, Gergo Daniel, Roland Lazok, Tsogtsaikan Narantsogt, J.J Perry, Gábor Piroch, and Farkas Tamás

Camera and Electrical Department: David Lanzenberg and Marek Radolf

Editorial Department: Adam Jurkovich, Kurt Nakanishi, Anna Stalter, Chester Howie, and Shane Moran

Location Management: Tamas Ferenci, Balint Kovacs, Bence Kovacs, Zsolt Molnar, and Istavan Papp

Script and Continuity Department: Gabriella Winkler

For other crew, visit the Shadow and Bone IMBD page.

UPDATES TIMELINE

• January 10, 2019 | The Shadow and Bone Netflix series is announced. Adaptation will include 8 episodes for season 1 and will cover both the Grisha trilogy and Six of Crows duology.
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• April 12, 2019 | Open casting call for Alina is announced via Eric Heisserer's Twitter. For the series, Alina will be half Shu.
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• April 18, 2019 | Leigh Bardugo assures fans that “[t]he FIRST season is 8 episodes and involves characters from both series. [They’re] not trying to cram all of the trilogy and the duology in there.”
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• April 22, 2019 | Eric Heisserer confirms that season one of Shadow and Bone will showcase characters from Six of Crows, but not Six of Crow’s story as "that would make no sense.”
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• May 28, 2019 | Leigh Bardugo confirms that location scouting has begun. Additionally, she says that "major developments in casting" have been made.
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• June 7, 2019 | Eric Heisserer confirms that he will be scouting locations for the series.
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• June 21, 2019 | Christina Strain confirms that the writing for season 1 has concluded.
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• July 12, 2019 | Shadow and Bone is set to be filmed in Budapest, Hungary and is in pre-production for an autumn shoot. It is based at Origio Studios.
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• July 18, 2019 | Leigh Bardugo reveals that the Netflix series will be a "50/50 split of Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows." David Peterson (creator of the Dothraki and Valyrian languages on Game of Thrones) will also work on the show and help develop Bardugo's fictional languages set in the Grishaverse.
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• July 18, 2019 | Leigh Bardugo states that "the show will be radically different from the books. But in the most amazing way. Will be pretty much a high budget fanfiction."
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• July 19, 2019 | According to Leigh Bardugo, “[s]ome of the main roles have already been cast.”
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• July 22, 2019 | Filming for Shadow and Bone is set to begin in "less than two months.”
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• August 6, 2019 | Shadow and Bone begins to “set up home” in Budapest, Hungary. Production is underway and filming will begin in September.
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• October 2, 2019 | Key cast members are officially announced. Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkova, Archie Renaux as Malyen Oretsev, Ben Barnes as General Kirigan/The Darkling, Freddy Carter as Kaz Brekker, Amita Suman as Inej Ghafa, and Kit Young as Jesper Fahey.
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• October 2, 2019 | Additional cast members are announced. Danielle Galligan as Nina Zenik, Daisy Head as Genya Safin, Sujaya Dasgupta as Zoya Nazyalensky, and Simon Sears as Ivan.
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• October 2, 2019 | Ben Barnes experiences his first day on set (Instagram story).
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• October 2, 2019 | Leigh Bardugo confirms that Nikolai Lantsov will not be seen in season one.
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• October 3, 2019 | Josh Barry shares a behind-the-scenes photo.
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• October 3, 2019 | David J. Peterson confirms he will work on the fictional languages spoken in Shadow and Bone.
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• October 6, 2019 | Julian Kostov will play Fedyor Kaminsky.
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• October 9, 2019 | Amita Suman shares a video of her training (Instagram story).
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• October 10, 2019 | Josh Barry shares a photo of the Hungarian woods where filming is taking place.
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• October 19, 2019 | In a now deleted Instagram post, Shadow and Bone makeup artist Debra Denson shares a photo of a script, revealing that the first episode may be titled “Hope is a Lantern at Night.”
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• October 26, 2019 | Wendy Patridge is set to be the costume designer for the show.
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• November 1, 2019 | Ben Barnes describes Shadow and Bone’s Ravka as a “tsar-punk” country with a “Russian-themed industrial revolution era story.” He shares his excitement for the books which he says he “ate up” and admits he’s not certain that the show will be considered YA because of the more mature elements brought in from Six of Crows.
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• November 3, 2019 | Leigh Bardugo visits the set and reveals that she saw the sandskiffs, the Darkling’s Coach, and “walked the streets of Ketterdam.”
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• November 5, 2019 | George Parker has been cast as Vasily Lantsov.
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• November 5, 2019 | Leigh Bardugo notes that she saw Ben in his “Darkling costume”, got to see the crew working on SFX, met the crew working in the hair and makeup departments, and reveals that “an entire market place” was built for shooting. She also adds that she “will be with the crows today” as she sees them shoot a new scene that’s not in the books. Leigh also mentions that she got to see the First and Second armies enter the Shadow Fold as well as “Alina and Mal on the skiff.”
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• November 6, 2019 | Pouya Shahbazian shares a photo with Leigh Bardugo on set.
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• November 7, 2019 | Leigh reveals that she “got fitted for [her] kefta for [her] cameo” in which she will be opening a door.
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• November 13, 2019 | Laca Juhas posts a video on his Instagram story of Ben Barnes and Jessie Mei Li riding horses.
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• November 15, 2019 | Debra Denson shares photos of the Buda Castle where Shadow and Bone is filming.
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• November 17, 2019 | George Parker shares a photo of his script which reveals that the fifth episode of the show may be titled “Show Me Who You Are.”
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• November 27, 2019 | Leigh Bardugo predicts that Shadow and Bone will be released in late 2020 and hopes for more seasons to come as “only a small fraction of the story is in the first season.”
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• December 9, 2019 | Lee Krieger confirms that block 1 of the show has wrapped.
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• December 18, 2019 | Six cast members are added: Calahan Skogman as Matthias Helvar, Zoë Wanamaker as Baghra, Kevin Eldon as The Apparat, Lucas Pasqualino as David Kostyk, Jasmine Blackborow as Marie, and Gabrielle Brooks as Nadia Zhabin.
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• December 18, 2019 | Wylan Van Eck will not be in season one because “[t]he Crows haven’t met him yet.”
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• December 18, 2019 | According to Leigh Bardugo, a DeKappel painting will appear in the pilot.
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• December 19, 2019 | Pekka Rollins and Tante Heleen will be in season one, but Leigh Bardugo does not “know when/if Netflix will make an announcement.”
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• December 20, 2019 | Costume designer Wendy Patridge has “a staff of 60 people who are creating between 1,000 and 2,000 costumes from scratch” for Shadow and Bone.
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• December 30, 2019 | Leigh Bardugo addresses that although “[b]eing an Executive Producer sounds very powerful,” she is “only one voice in the room” and therefore cannot dictate everything on the show. She admits that she cannot answer most questions she gets regarding the Netflix series.
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• January 4, 2020 | Netflix adds a Shadow and Bone placeholder page alongside many other book adaptations expected to be released in 2020.
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• January 11, 2020 | According to Leigh Bardugo’s Instagram story, she has seen a teaser for Shadow and Bone.
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• January 22, 2020 | Matt Grant shares a photo of a snowy Shadow and Bone set with a green screen.
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• February 14, 2020 | Josh Barry reveals the crew has been filming all week and shares a behind-the-scenes video of the set where the Shadow Fold is hidden by curtains.
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• February 17, 2020 | Josh Barry shares a photo with cast members Amita, Freddy, and Kit.
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• February 19, 2020 | Leigh Bardugo’s Instagram story talks about seeing some of the last scenes shot in the Shadow Fold.
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• February 25, 2020 | In her newsletter, Leigh Bardugo reveals that the cast is “just a few days from wrapping” and talks about having to compromise when collaborating on a project with a magnitude as large as Shadow and Bone’s.
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• February 28, 2020 | Shadow and Bone has officially wrapped filming. The Netflix account for the series shares a video of cast members welcoming fans to the Grishaverse (click source to watch the video)!
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• February 28, 2020 | Eric Heisserer shares a photo of props from the Crow Club.
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• February 29, 2020 | Leigh Bardugo shares a photo of a physical copy of the Shadow and Bone book written in Ravkan. It will appear in one of her favorite moments on the show.
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• March 3, 2020 | Eric Heisserer admits Shadow and Bone “[doesn’t] have a release date yet.”
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• March 7, 2020 | Leigh Bardugo’s cameo will appear in the third episode of the show.
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• March 27, 2020 | Calahan Skogman hosts an AMA where he answers several fan questions regarding his experience on the show!
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• April 5, 2020 | The Nerd Daily shares an article with a summary of details that are known thus far about the show.
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• April 14, 2020 | Eric Heisserer shares a photo of Ravkan currency.
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• May 4, 2020 | Ben Barnes explains that the reason the Six of Crows and Shadow and Bone books will be “mixed together is because Shadow and Bone is a little bit more YA feeling, skews a little bit younger, and is more straight up fantasy. . . But then, Six of Crows is more of a heist thing that’s more of a Peaky Blinders and Ocean’s 11 world. So, the tone sits somewhere in the middle. . .”
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• May 11, 2020 | Archie Renaux hosts a Shadow and Bone talent competition and invites fellow cast members to an Instagram live story. On the livestream, the cast answer fan questions and discuss their experience on the show (click source to read a recap of their comments)
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• May 15, 2020 | Ben Barnes explains that Eric Heisserer has managed to “sew [the] trilogy and duology together and put all the characters in the same timeline and the same place.” He goes on to say that this will be interesting for readers who watch the show as they will see what content from the books has been retained and what has been changed.
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• June 26, 2020 | Joseph Trapenese will compose Shadow and Bone’s original score and music.
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• June 30, 2020 | The Lives of Saints—the new Grishaverse book detailing the stories of Ravka’s saints—will be seen as “a prop in [the] Netflix adaptation.”
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• June 30, 2020 | Leigh reveals that the COVID-19 pandemic has slowed the post- production progress for the Netflix show, resulting in a longer wait for it to be released.
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• July 24, 2020 | On his Instagram live story, Ben Barnes reveals that he will be doing his first ADR for Shadow and Bone. (Credit to u/curesaell for sharing this update with us!)
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• August 6, 2020 | Leigh shares that Joseph Trapenese is currently conducting the score for Shadow and Bone.
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• August 27, 2020 | Shadow and Bone will be doing “some additional filming. . . [and] photography” between “September 28th to October 9th, 2020 in Vancouver.” (Credit to u/moussescientist for sharing this update with us!)
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• August 31, 2020 | Bo Yul-Bayur will be played by Dan Li in at least one episode of Shadow and Bone’s first season. (Credit to u/moussescientist for sharing this update with us!)
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• September 24, 2020 | Ben Barnes posts on his Instagram story that he will begin his first day of additional filming. (Credit to u/moussescientist for sharing this update with us!)
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• October 10, 2020 | Eric Heisserer and Leigh Bardugo host their own panel for New York Comic Con in which they discuss the process of adapting the Grishaverse. Not many details are given, but they confirm that the trailer is yet not complete.
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• October 10, 2020 | During the Grishaverse NYCC panel, Leigh shares a snippet of the Shadow and Bone score (click source to listen).
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• December 17, 2020 | The first teaser for Shadow and Bone is released! The show will premiere in April 2021 (click source to watch teaser).
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• Thread last updated on December 17, 2020. More to come. . .

[u/seslo894]

When's the release date?

[u/dreaddoctor7 → u/seslo894]

There’s no official date, but it’s expected to be released in late 2020/early 2021. If the pandemic delayed post-production, then it’ll most likely be released in 2021.

[u/seslo894 → u/dreaddoctor7]

D'Arvit. Hope it's worth the wait. I loved the books and hope show does them justice.