P.B. Kerr has sold the motion picture rights to his children’s fantasy series Children of the Lamp to DreamWorks. Lee Hall will adapt the books into screenplays, and Nina Jacobson is set to produce the films.
The first three books—The Akhenaten Adventure, Blue Djinn of Babylon, and Cobra King of Kathmandu—have sold more than one million copies worldwide. Book four, The Day of the Djinn Warrior, is due out in September.
The books follow “the international adventures of a family of djinn who pass for human, but have the power to grant wishes.”
“My kids and I read the first book for fun and fell in love with Phillip Kerr’s premise, characters and sense of humor,” Jacobson said. “We were all so excited when DreamWorks shared our enthusiasm.”
Hall’s previous credits include the 2006 British television adaptation of The Wind in the Willows and Billy Elliot, for which he was nominated for an Oscar.