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Fulwell 73 Teams With ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ Scribe To Reboot BBC Time Travel Series ‘Moondial’
Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: Fulwell 73 is planning to turn the BBC’s 1988 young adult series Moondial into a modern time travel franchise after securing the TV rights to Helen Cresswell’s original novel.The James Corden-backed company will team with Matt Lopez, who wrote Nicolas Cage starrer The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Dwayne Johnson’s Race To Witch Mountain, to reimagine the book, which follows a teenage girl as she discovers a portal through time while wandering the grounds of a nearby mansion.Also partnering on the project is Wiip, the indie studio run by former BBC and ABC executive Paul Lee.