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Amazon, Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society Land Akwaeke Emezi Novel ‘You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty’
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deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has won an auction for the screen rights to You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, a novel by Akwaeke Emezi that the Simon & Schuster imprint Atria will publish in 2022.
Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society will develop it. Jordan, whose new film Without Remorse opens Friday on Amazon Prime, berthed his production company at Amazon and this is the first major film property acquisition.The book sold in a bidding battle, in the vicinity of high six against low seven figures, one of the biggest book deals of the year so far and one that was highly competitive.
There were eight offers from studios, some with filmmakers attached. Jordan and Outlier Society’s Elizabeth Raposo chased it hard.
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