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EXCLUSIVE: After touchdown the rights to the favored Kazu Kibuishi graphic novel collection Amulet, Netflix has now begun improvement on a function movie adaptation and set Jason Fuchs to co-write the script with Kibuishi. Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen and Dan Levine will produce for 21 Laps with Becca Edelman of 21 Laps overseeing. Kibuishi will exec produce.
The collection follows a younger girl who discovers a magical amulet that belonged to her great-grandfather and makes use of it to enter a fantastical new world. The collection has offered greater than 7 million copies within the US and Canada and has been translated into 23 languages worldwide. Amulet: Waverider is the ninth and remaining ebook within the Amulet collection. E book 9 was launched on February 6, 2024, turning into the eighth consecutive #1 New York Occasions Greatest Vendor within the Amulet collection.
For 21 Laps, this has been a 16 yr journey as the unique ebook revealed in 2008 and it took a decade of courting to get the rights.
Fuchs not too long ago wrapped manufacturing on HBO’s It prequel collection Welcome To Derry, the place he not solely penned the pilot however served as a co-showrunner of the collection. Exec produced by Fuchs and Andy And Barbara Muschietti, who produced the movies with Andy directing each. The collection is one among HBO’s most highly-anticipated collection set to premiere in 2025.
Fuchs, Kibuishi and 21 Laps are repped by WME.
