Media Sales
| New option on Robert J. Sawyer's The Terminal Experiment | |
| People > Media Sales | February 11, 2009 |
 Divani Films and Director Srinivas Krishna have renewed their film option on Robert J. Sawyer's The Terminal Experiment...
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| Wilkins and Munroe's El Zombo Fantasma to be live-action film | |
| People > Media Sales | January 28, 2009 |
 David Wilkins and Kevin Munroe's comic about a deceased Mexican wrestler, which debuted in 2005, will be produced as a live-action feature film...
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| Isaac Asimov's Foundation sells to Columbia Pictures for Roland Emmerich | |
| People > Media Sales | January 21, 2009 |
| Columbia Pictures wins auction for film rights to Isaac Asimov's Foundation, and expects Roland Emmerich to direct... | |
| The Left Hand of Darkness optioned | |
| People > Media Sales | December 29, 2008 |
| Screenwriter/director Will Phillips has optioned Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness for feature film rights, via agent Bill Contardi of the Virginia Kidd Agency. Le Guin's 1969 classic takes place on "the world of Winter, introducing us to its inhabitants, the Gethenians-whose society is not based on gender roles." | |
| Sookie Stackhouse and True Blood around the world | |
| People > Books | December 17, 2008 |
| Charlaine Harris's "Sookie Stackhouse" series is big news nearly everywhere, with translations into two dozen languages, and the HBO series True Blood, based on her novels, is or will be airing on at least four continents... | |
| Gale Anne Hurd / Valhalla Motion Pictures buys film rights to GearHead | |
| People > Media Sales | November 20, 2008 |
 Gale Ann Hurd, of Terminator fame, and her Valhalla Motion Pictures, recently bought film rights to the graphic novel GearHead...
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| Issac Asimov's The End of Eternity licensed by New Regency | |
| People > Media Sales | November 18, 2008 |
| New Regency bought an option on Isaac Asimov's out-of-print novel The End of Eternity (1955)... | |
| GRRMartin's Game of Thrones picked up as a pilot for HBO | |
| People > Media Sales | November 13, 2008 |
| George R.R. Martin's A Song of Fire & Ice series has been picked up by HBO, which is funding a pilot, to be titled Game of Thrones (after the first book in the series)... | |
| Ridley Scott buys film rights to Joe Haldeman's The Forever War | |
| People > Media Sales | October 17, 2008 |
| Joe Haldeman's 34-year-old classic has "grown more timely and relevant" according to director Ridley Scott... | |
| Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt sell Dracula: the Un-dead to Dutton | |
| People > Book & Novel Sales | October 6, 2008 |
| Bram Stoker's great-grandnephew has co-written Dracula: the Un-dead, the first Stoker-family authorized sequel to the seminal 1897 work, and sold it to Dutton, with film rights... | |
| Patricia Briggs' "Mercy Thompson" series optioned for film | |
| People > Media Sales | October 3, 2008 |
| Patricia Briggs' "Mercy Thompson" books, about a shape-shifting vampire hunter, have been optioned by Mike Newell's production company... | |
| DreamWorks extends option on John Wyndham's Chocky | |
| People > Media Sales | September 26, 2008 |
| DreamWorks renewed its option on John Wyndham's 1968 novel Chocky, although expected Hollywood moves... | |
| ABC Television buys Robert J. Sawyer's Flashforward | |
| People > Media Sales | September 22, 2008 |
| ABC Television bought a series by David S. Goyer and Brannon Braga, based on Robert J. Sawyer's award-winning Flashforward... | |
| Jeff Carlson sells feature film rights to Plague Year | |
| People > Media Sales | September 15, 2008 |
 Jeff Carlson's Plague Year, the first in a trilogy of near-future nanotech thriller books, has been optioned for a feature film in a "nice deal"...
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| Robert A. Heinlein's "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" may become feature film | |
| People > Media Sales | August 21, 2008 |
| Heinlein's 1942 novella may become a $50 million feature produced by Phoenix Pictures and written and directed by Alex Proyas... | |
| New Riverworld tv option, and other PJFarmer news | |
| People > Media Sales | August 18, 2008 |
| Chris Lotts at the Ralph Vicinanza Agency reports selling "a major TV option" on Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series to Hallmark Productions via Vince Gerardis at Created By. Lotts also sold rights to Dare, and remarks on... | |
| A. Lee Martinez sells option on The Automatic Detective | |
| People > Media Sales | August 15, 2008 |
 A. Lee Martinez options his The Automatic Detective to David Fincher and Tim Miller. The deal was handled by...
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| Universal options Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time | |
| People > Media Sales | August 14, 2008 |
| Universal Pictures has optioned Robert Jordan's 12-volume epic "The Wheel of Time" in a seven-figure deal... | |
| David Anthony Durham sells film rights to Acacia | |
| People > Media Sales | July 31, 2008 |
| David Anthony Durham's fantasy novel Acacia may be the stuff of Hollywood franchises, according to production firms Relativity and De Luca... | |
| Derek Gunn offers chapters of second Vampire Apocalypse novel; first being shopped for film | |
| People > Books | July 14, 2008 |
| Irish author Derek Gunn's Vampire Apocalypse series follows vampires which are monsters as they take over the world. The film rights are currently... | |
| Arcana's Clockwork Girl becoming animated film | |
| People > Media Sales | July 10, 2008 |
| Clockwork Girl, created by Sean O'Reilly and Kevin Hanna, is being turned into an animated film thanks to Telefilm Canada... | |
| Brandon Sanderson sells a bunch of audio and a Dreamworks option | |
| People > Audio Book Sales | June 16, 2008 |
| Brandon Sanderson sold audio rights to the Mistborn trilogy and two versions of Elantris, and an animation option on Alcatraz Smedry... | |
| Halcyon Company acquires rights to Terminator and Philip K. Dick | |
| People > Media Sales | May 27, 2008 |
| Start-up production firm The Halcyon Company is producing three new Terminator films, and has acquired rights to all of Philip K. Dick's writing output... | |
| Columbia Pictures buys film rights to Goosebumps | |
| People > Media Sales | May 19, 2008 |
| R.L. Stine's huge children's horror series, Goosebumps, will come to the big screen courtesy of Columbia Pictures... | |
| James L. White's Hunter's Moon to be motion picture | |
| People > Media Sales | April 29, 2008 |
| James L. White's graphic novel Hunter's Moon has been picked up by Mekhi Phifer's Facilitator Films... | |
