Kadokawa is teaming up with Skydance Television to adapt Reki Kawahara’s popular light novel series, Sword Art Online, into a live-action TV show.
The two of them will not only be serving as executive producers for the live-action Sword Art Online TV series, but also as writers and showrunners.
Aside from the live-action SAO series, Skydance also plans to launch a Sword Art Online virtual reality experience through the company’s interactive arm. Skydance Media CEO David Ellison has said ““At Skydance we are in the business of world-building and SAO is a massive pop-culture phenomenon from which we plan to launch a full-scale and wide-ranging set of live-action franchise extensions across our business verticals, beginning with television,” and added that “We look forward to working alongside Laeta, Reki Kawahara and the teams at Kadowawa and Aniplex to build out a deeply immersive new universe of SAO in an authentic way that honors its well-established fan base around the globe.”
Now, Skydance Television has revealed who will be producing the series for TV, and they are Patrick Massett and John Zinman.