X-Men: First Class writer to try and make sense out of the Myst TV show

Despite how unlikely it seemed last summer, Village Roadshow’s universe of Myst content—inspired and adapted from the iconic computer game of the same name—is actually moving forward (just very slowly, almost as if it’s going through one static image at a time and then randomly clicking on things until something works). According to Deadline, the studio has hired X-Men: First Class writer and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles veteran Ashley Edward Miller to write its TV show version of Myst, which everyone seems to be assuming will follow the basic mythology of the Myst brand. To put it extremely briefly: There’s a guy named Atrus whose grandmother discovered a mystical civilization with the ability to use books to transport people to different worlds. There are some power struggles, people get trapped in books, and there’s an island full of somewhat arcane puzzles that often involves finding missing pages from magic books. It was made by brothers Robyn and Rand Miller, and there was a sequel to Myst called Riven: The Sequel To Myst (one of the all-time great sequel titles).