When Syfy began adapting Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck’s space-opera novels The Expanse for television, the authors ( who write together under the name James S.A. Corey ) were closely involved in the process. Over six seasons and a shift to Prime Video, Franck and Abraham served as screenwriters, producers, media ambassadors, and even walk-on actors. Abraham and Franck are set to have an even bigger role in the developing adaptation of their current book series, The Captive’s War . In 2024, they formed a production company, Expanding Universe , to produce the show, and they already have a development deal with Amazon. But the duo tells Polygon that knowing they’re writing for the screen as well as the page this time around didn’t change their plotting or process at all — which is going to cause a lot of problems in adapting the series for TV. “It really annoyed and confused our showrunner, because we made it so freaking hard to adapt into a TV show,” Abraham says.…