Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s production company, Stolen Picture, is set to adapt Ben Aaronovitch’s fantasy novel, Rivers of London (known as Midnight Riot in the U.S.).

“We were in a position where I said ‘there’s this book that I loved’ and it became available, more or less,” says Frost in an interview with Deadline. “I was chuffed to bits that I could get the rights to make it into a TV show. Everyone wants to potentially find the next Game of Thrones and the chance to turn Rivers of London into an eight-hour movie and hopefully find someone who will financially back that is a real draw.”

While this project is currently in its earliest stages (writers are still being hired in order to help assemble a formal pitch to potential broadcasting partners), everyone involved clearly can’t wait to talk about it. Pegg notes that “TV has suddenly evolved into something far more cinematic” which he hopes will allow the crew to “tell these stories with scope and get into creative detail.” While Frost hinted that their scope could span eight episodes, it doesn’t sound like the Sony supported Stolen Picture production company has a deal in place to produce a certain number of episodes.

For his part, writer Ben Aaronovitch states that he couldn’t say no to Pegg and Frost and that he feels “confident on several levels.” He appreciates that Pegg and Frost “don’t like bollocks” and believes that the team can work past any inevitable “creative conflicts and where external forces” because the team intends to not accept any compromises unless they “have to.” Furthermore, he loves that he doesn’t have to “explain things to do them about magic.”