EXCLUSIVE: Folktellers: Excerpts from an Unknown Guidebook is getting the television treatment after Peter Mohan, exec producer of Hulu’s The Hardy Boys, teamed up with former Gaumont exec Vanessa Shapiro.Mohan and Shapiro, via her nascent shingle Nicely Entertainment, have optioned the YA fantasy book series and are developing an adaptation.Mohan, who was also a writer and co-exec producer of BBC America’s Orphan Black, will act as an exec producer and showrunner of the project with Shapiro, who worked on Amazon’s El Presidente, as exec producer if the series lands a network.The pair will work with author Josef Bastian, founder of Folktellers LLC, and Scott Paskoff, to develop the eight-book story arc into a live-action series for kids
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