Exclusive: In a dazzling double deal, Simon & Schuster Children’s UK and Simon & Schuster US have made a seven-figure worldwide rights deal — a precedent for a debut fantasy novel — and Sony Pictures in turn has made a preemptive seven-figure screen rights deal for Skandar and the Unicorn Thief, the first of a much anticipated fantasy adventure novel series by A. F. Steadman.
The deals cover three books, and came after a heated multi-publisher auction in the UK for a series set to launch in Spring 2022.
Getting a jump on the town, Sony Pictures preemptively acquired the feature film rights to Skandar and the Unicorn Thief as the publishing auction unfolded. Drew Reed and Jake Bauman were instrumental in landing the deal and Peter Kang is overseeing the project for Sony Pictures.
Skandar and The Unicorn Thief is a magical middle grade fantasy adventure series that takes readers into a mystical world of unlikely heroes,...
The deals cover three books, and came after a heated multi-publisher auction in the UK for a series set to launch in Spring 2022.
Getting a jump on the town, Sony Pictures preemptively acquired the feature film rights to Skandar and the Unicorn Thief as the publishing auction unfolded. Drew Reed and Jake Bauman were instrumental in landing the deal and Peter Kang is overseeing the project for Sony Pictures.
Skandar and The Unicorn Thief is a magical middle grade fantasy adventure series that takes readers into a mystical world of unlikely heroes,...
- 9/14/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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