Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: In a dazzling double deal, Simon & Schuster Children’s UK and Simon & Schuster US have made a seven-figure worldwide rights deal — a precedent for a debut fantasy novel — and Sony Pictures in turn has made a preemptive seven-figure screen rights deal for Skandar and the Unicorn Thief, the first of a much anticipated fantasy adventure novel series by A.
F. Steadman.The deals cover three books, and came after a heated multi-publisher auction in the UK for a series set to launch in Spring 2022.Getting a jump on the town, Sony Pictures preemptively acquired the feature film rights to Skandar and the Unicorn Thief as the publishing auction unfolded.
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