Popular Dark Romance Book Lights Out in Development at Netflix

The fashionable acheronian romance publication Lights Out by Navessa Allen is successful improvement for a TV adaptation astatine Netflix, arsenic reported by Deadline. Allen besides shared the quality connected her Instagram, referencing rumors that fans wanted a movie – and amazed them with the quality that Lights Out is being adapted for a bid instead.

The publication volition beryllium adapted by Hannah Schneider, who volition service arsenic writer, showrunner, and enforcement producer. Schneider is known for producing connected the acheronian drama Why Women Kill and the transgression play The Waterfront. Peter Chernin and Tracey Cook volition enforcement nutrient arsenic well, from Chernin Entertainment.

Lights Out is the archetypal publication successful Allen's Into Darkness series, published successful February 2024. Allen sited fans connected TikTok arsenic creating the surge successful popularity, arsenic good arsenic getting Lights Out connected the New York Times Bestseller list, which has present been connected the database for 52 weeks. The sequel, Caught Up, released successful June 2025 and landed instantly astatine #1 connected the New York Times Bestseller list. The adjacent book, Game On, is acceptable to merchandise connected March 31.

Lights Out follows 2 main characters successful POV chapters – Aly, a trauma caregiver who has been obsessing implicit a masked, tattooed antheral who posts thirst traps connected societal media, and Josh, said antheral who works successful cybersecurity and tin hack his mode into Aly's location to springiness her the phantasy she desires.

The publication is known for being a acheronian stalker communicative with 27 trigger warnings – but it besides has a rom-com benignant to support things airy astatine times. It's chartless if Netflix volition besides accommodate the different books successful the series.

Lights Out isn't the archetypal acheronian romance to beryllium adapted to surface by a streaming service, with Netflix besides scooping up the acheronian phantasy romance publication Quicksilver by Callie Hart and Rebecca Yarros' Fourth Wing being adapted into a TV bid astatine Amazon.

Jessie Wade is Associate Director of Editorial Programming astatine IGN. You tin find her playing cozy games connected her Switch oregon watching the latest phantasy and play shows, arsenic good arsenic getting mislaid successful mode excessively galore phantasy romance books.