Hulu is going to wait a while longer to get into the fantasy series game.

Hulu’s adaptation of the best-selling A Court of Thorn and Roses (or ACOTAR) book series would have been its first original series in the fantasy genre. Producer Ron Moore, who brought the Outlander book series to Starz, had teamed with author Sarah Maas to produce the ACOTAR series for 20th Television to be streamed on Hulu.

But things went south for the series when Moore returned to Sony Pictures Television to develop and produce scripted series for cable and streaming there. 20th and Disney were rumored to be shopping around for another writer for ACOTAR, and sources said that while the show was no longer in active development, the show was technically still in the works. That proved to be false and last week 20th announced that ACOTAR was dead.

A Court of Thorns and Roses combined romance, adventure and political intrigue into the newly-dubbed subgenre Romantasy, and tell the story of a woman who agrees to travel to a magical realm with a faerie lord in return for her family’s safety, only to fall for him and ultimately fight for that love when an ancient curse threatens to destroy the faerie and human realms.

Maas’ A Court of Thorns and Roses, published in 2015, was followed by A Court of Mist and Fury in 2016, A Court of Wings and Ruin (2017), A Court of Frost and Starlight (2018) and most recently A Court of Silver Flames (2021). Every book in the series thus far has been a New York Times best-seller.

Maas reportedly is taking the TV adaptation rights to other studios, so an ACOTAR series may yet be more than a fantasy one day.