Amazon MGM Studios Sets Three-Film Adaptation of Ana Huang's Gods of the Game Series

Amazon MGM Studios secured the rights to adapt all three novels in Ana Huang's Gods of the Game series into feature films, betting on an author who has sold more than 27 million copies worldwide and commands billions of views across TikTok and Instagram to deliver a built-in global audience before a single frame is shot.

The trilogy adapts Huang's interconnected romances set at Blackcastle, a fictional English Premier League club based at Markovic Stadium. The Striker, which launched the series on August 22, 2024, follows Asher Donovan and Scarlett DuBois. The Defender centers on Vincent DuBois and Brooklyn Armstrong. The third book, The Keeper, which follows Noah Wilson and Carina Yu, is due in October, and Amazon secured its film rights before the novel reaches shelves.

Liz Pelletier and Sherryl Clark of Premeditated Productions will produce all three films under their first-look deal with Amazon MGM, a partnership the studio extended for five additional years in March 2026, locking it through the summer of 2032. Pelletier, who also serves as publisher at Entangled Publishing and brought Fourth Wing to market, and Clark, the former president of Crooked Highway, co-founded Premeditated to move high-fidelity genre IP from page to screen. Jackie Levine and Rachel Ghiazza will co-produce for Audible, which distributed the Gods of the Game audiobooks, embedding Amazon's own audio platform inside the production structure and signaling the cross-platform logic animating the deal.

Premeditated's Amazon slate is already dense with BookTok titles. The company is simultaneously developing Fourth Wing alongside Outlier Society and Kilter Films, with Meredith Averill attached as showrunner, plus Dragon Cursed, A Stage Set for Villains, and Liz Tomforde's Windy City series, which has accumulated more than 25.4 million reads. Gods of the Game joins a pipeline that treats romance fiction as premium franchise material rather than secondary content.

The English Premier League setting adds international reach that most domestic romance IP cannot replicate. Huang is a number one New York Times, Sunday Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and number one Amazon bestselling author with 15 books across four series, translated into more than 30 languages and charted in Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Australia, Singapore, Greece, Hungary, Portugal, Ireland, Argentina, and Chile, among others. Gods of the Game belongs to Huang's broader shared universe, which fans call the Anaverse, spanning her Twisted, Kings of Sin, and Gods of the Game series.

No screenwriter has been publicly attached, and no casting decisions have been made. Huang addressed her readership directly in a newsletter: "NO ONE has been cast yet. As always, you'll get the latest updates straight from me, so don't believe anything unless it's announced by Amazon and/or me on our official, verified accounts." A first film is not expected before late 2027, leaving the project in early development with significant execution questions, including who will adapt novels that blend explicit romance with sports drama for a theatrical-and-streaming hybrid audience.

The Gods of the Game deal is Huang's second major adaptation milestone in under 18 months. Netflix acquired the rights to her Twisted Love novel and its sequels in a seven-figure deal announced January 9, 2025, with that series' writers' room actively developing scripts. The simultaneous pursuit by Netflix and Amazon MGM positions Huang's Anaverse as one of the most aggressively contested IP portfolios in contemporary publishing, and marks romance fiction's deepening role as a primary acquisition target for studios competing for global subscribers.