Paramount Pictures Lands Rights To Tomi Adeyemi Best-Selling YA Book Series ‘Children Of Blood And Bone’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Following a highly competitive bidding war that saw several major players in the mix, Paramount Pictures has landed the rights for the Children of Blood and Bone trilogy, the action fantasy film based on the bestselling YA novel by Tomi Adeyemi.
Adeyemi will adapt and pen the script. She will also executive produce. Paramount Pictures is fast-tracking this big-screen adaptation of the YA novel with Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen of Temple Hill Entertainment and Karen Rosenfelt of Sunswept Entertainment producing.
Children of Blood and Bone and its sequel Children of Virtue and Vengeance are published by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan and sources say the third and final book in the trilogy will be published in 2023.“Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone has not only become a phenomenon in the YA world, it has transformed every expectation of what world-building fantasy can be.
It’s with enormous pride that our studio, along with Tomi and our partners Wyck, Marty and Karen, set out to bring this franchise to life on the big screen.
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