Taylor Swift and Barack Obama Love “The God of the Woods.” Now It's Getting a Netflix Adaptation
- - Taylor Swift and Barack Obama Love “The God of the Woods.” Now It's Getting a Netflix Adaptation
Angel SaundersDecember 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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The God of the Woods is coming to Netflix as a series
Liz Moore’s New York Times bestselling book is loved by former President Barack Obama and Taylor Swift
Details regarding casting and a release date have not yet been announced
Taylor Swift and Barack Obama will soon see one of their favorite books become a television series.
Netflix announced on Wednesday, Dec. 17 that Liz Moore’s bestselling 2024 novel, The God of the Woods, will be getting a series adaptation from the streaming service with the novelist teaming up with Liz Hannah to both serve as co-showrunners, writers and executive producers.
“We love making TV and can’t wait to bring The God of the Woods to life with our partners at Sony and Netflix,” Moore and Hannah said in a joint statement to Netflix. “We hope everyone falls in love (and hate) with these characters as much as we have.”
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'The God of the Woods' by Liz Moore
The book is a multigenerational drama series set in the Adirondack mountains of New York. that follows the disappearance of a teenage girl named Barbara Van Laar, who comes from a wealthy family.
When the 13-year-old goes missing from her family’s summer camp in 1975, it leads some to question the unsolved disappearance of her older brother 14 years prior.
In 2024, the former president of the United States, 64, named the novel among his favorite books and music of the summer, according to the Obama Foundation’s official website.
That December, PEOPLE named the New York Times bestseller as its top book of the year.
The God of the Woods was also thrust back into the spotlight when Swift was heard listening to it in audiobook form during her new docuseries, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour | The End of an Era (streaming now on Disney+).
While the title was not specifically named, the following excerpt was heard in a scene: "casting spotlights here and there across the ground. At a certain point, Tracy understood where they were going. Under normal circumstances she would have felt afraid."
Sony Pictures Television will produce the upcoming Netflix series, while Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty will executive produce for Original Film — and it won’t be the first time Moore has had a book transformed into a show.
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Earlier this year, Amanda Seyfried starred in the TV adaptation of Moore's novel Long Bright River as Philadelphia police officer Mickey Fitzpatrick, who is working during an opioid crisis.
Details regarding casting and a release date for The God of the Woods have not yet been announced.
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