Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Gabler’s 3000 Pictures just closed a preemptive deal for Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro’s upcoming novel, Klara and the Sun.
Gabler was able to make the deal was made as bids were mobilizing from multiple parties. David Heyman is producing through his Heyday Films banner.The novel will be published in March 2021 by Alfred A.
Knopf in the US and Faber in the UK, followed by other territories around the world. Heyday’s Jeffrey Clifford and Rosie Alison brought in the project and Sony’s new head of Literary in New York, Drew Reed, was instrumental in the deal.
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