- Warner Bros. Pictures has acquired the film rights to Shannon Messenger’s Keeper of the Lost Cities publishing franchise, which has sold seven million copies of nine books worldwide to date. A 10th book titled Unraveled is due out in November, extending the story about a telepathic girl on a quest to find out why she is the conduit to a parallel universe before evil forces crack the mystery first and achieve double-world domination. Emma Watts (Maze Runner, The Kingsman) has been tapped to produce, and Messenger will be involved as an EP.
- Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is working on turning a three-year-old picture book she penned called The Christmas Pig into a feature film. The project is in very early development at Rowling’s Brontë Film & TV entertainment shingle and does not have a production company attached yet. Inspired by her son, this story is about an epic adventure to the Land of the Lost to find a beloved childhood toy pig during the holidays.
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