![]() ![]() Previously, the rights were owned by Andy Serkis’s Imaginarium Studios having “struck a deal with 20th Century Fox to develop the project back in 2013” but, according to Screen Daily, that only “recently expired”. It hasn’t been an easy road getting there, though. ![]() She’s living the dream, and that was before Harriet Hammond and Daz Spencer Lovesey of Bad Penny Productions, who’ve been involved in such films as the still in production Waiting For Anya ( based on Michael Morpurgo’s book of the same name) and Mad To Be Normal nabbed the rights to her book. Samantha Shannon? She was only twenty-one, TWENTY-ONE, when the book was published. It’s a dystopian novel with a supernatural twist. I’m in. ![]() Set in 2059, the book follows Paige Majoney, nineteen, who is a dreamwalker, better known as a clairvoyant, and who lives in a dystopian world where she commits treason simply by breathing. Named the first book in NBC’s Today show’s monthly book club, the novel was published on Augby Bloomsbury Publishing. UK producers Harriet Hammond and Daz Spencer Lovesey have acquired the rights to Samantha Shannon’s young adult novel The Bone Seasonwhich they plan to adapt for television. ![]()
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