Kevin Costner’s The Explorer’s Guild to become a book and film series

By Alex Maidy

Posted 14 years ago

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Kevin Costner is not going to sit around and wait for a project to fall in his lap. Instead, he came up with his own idea for a series which has been purchased by Atria Books. Costner’s THE EXPLORER’S GUILD is a planned line of serial adventures (think INDIANA JONES or JONNY QUEST) that will be published in book form. But, Costner is also looking to star and produce a feature film series based on the novels.

According to Deadline, the series has a pretty epic plot: The Explorers Guild is a clandestine group of adventurers who seek out the places where light gives way to shadow, and reason is usurped by myth. The secrets of this unknown world are hidden in mountain ranges and lost in deserts, sunk to the ocean floor and lodged deep beneath polar ice. The aim of The Explorers Guild: to discover the mysteries that lie beyond the boundaries of the known world. The first adventure is set against the backdrop of World War I and revolves around the quest to find the mythic Buddhist city Shambhala. Guild members are looking for different things there: one hopes to save his brother’s life, another looks for spiritual enlightenment and peace; others fear it will bring mankind to the brink of apocalypse. The search includes treks to the Polar North, the Mongolian deserts and underground canals of Asia to the Himalayas.

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