Skydance Television has now signed a deal with Patrick Massett and John Zinman – writer-producers whose credits include Friday Night Lights, The Blacklist and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
Together with Massett and Zinman, Laeta Kalogridis (Avatar, Altered Carbon) will write the pilot episode and serve as an executive producer alongside David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Marcy Ross.
Back in summer 2016, Skydance Television announced global live-action rights to Sword Art Online in a partnership with Kadowawa Corp with aims of bringing the VRMMORPG sci-fi to television.