Michael Jai White’s Jaigantic Studios Buys Hawthorne Books and Literary Arts (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comBrent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaJaigantic Studios has acquired Hawthorne Books and Literary Arts. The imprint will target manuscripts with the goal of finding projects potential for film and TV content.“This is a marriage made in heaven,” said Rhonda Hughes, the publisher at Hawthorne.The company, which is headquartered in Portland, Ore., has optioned several projects in the past.
That includes selling the rights to Monica Drake’s “Clown Girl” to Kristen Wiig, and optioning Lidia Yuknavitch’s “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir” to Scott Free, which has tapped Kristen Stewart to adapt and direct.
Hawthorne has also published Academy Award nominated screenwriter Anthony McCarten’s novel, “Brilliance.” McCarten wrote the scripts for “The Theory of Everything” and “The Two Popes.” Hughes will remain in her current role and will continue buying literary fiction and creative nonfiction.
Initially, Hawthorne will publish eight books per year.Hawthorne’s first book to be released as an imprint of Jaigantic will be “North Star Rising: A Novel About the Life of Frederick Douglass,” by Sidney Morrison, which the company hopes to turn into a mini-series.
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