It’s the hot new book that all the kids are reading and adults guilty hide behind specially created “grown-up” covers so that they don’t get laughed at on the tube!
September 15, 2006 (Press Release) --
It’s the hot new book that all the kids are reading and adults guilty hide behind specially created “grown-up” covers so that they don’t get laughed at on the tube! Fantasy series The Secrets Of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel is this year’s Harry Potter!
Except… It’s not. And while the man in question might have been a real-life 15th century French alchemist and is name-checked in the Potter books as a friend of Dumbledore, his own adventures haven’t even arrived in bookshops yet.
But that’s no bar to the source-hungry world of Hollywood adaptations, where we strongly predict parents will sell the books that their unborn children haven’t written yet. It hasn’t happened quite that quickly for Flamel, though – Michael Scott’s fantasy series was snapped up in early form by reality TV producer Mark Burnett, who plans to sell the idea to a studio.
The first book, The Alchemyst, will be published next May, and like any good Rowling-alike, Scott has already cracked on with book two, while four more plots are outlined. Alchemyst sees Nicholas Fleming living in 21st Century San Francisco, where the spry 600-year-old guides a pair of teenagers through their part in a centuries-old war. As the story progresses through the planned novels, the teens – Josh and Sophie Newman – will encounter a variety of mythical creatures as they journey across the States.
It’s naturally far too earlier for any casting or even a director – with no studio attached the project doesn’t yet have a writer either, but with everyone still after the next Potter possible, this one is likely to get taken off the market quickly.
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Except… It’s not. And while the man in question might have been a real-life 15th century French alchemist and is name-checked in the Potter books as a friend of Dumbledore, his own adventures haven’t even arrived in bookshops yet.
But that’s no bar to the source-hungry world of Hollywood adaptations, where we strongly predict parents will sell the books that their unborn children haven’t written yet. It hasn’t happened quite that quickly for Flamel, though – Michael Scott’s fantasy series was snapped up in early form by reality TV producer Mark Burnett, who plans to sell the idea to a studio.
The first book, The Alchemyst, will be published next May, and like any good Rowling-alike, Scott has already cracked on with book two, while four more plots are outlined. Alchemyst sees Nicholas Fleming living in 21st Century San Francisco, where the spry 600-year-old guides a pair of teenagers through their part in a centuries-old war. As the story progresses through the planned novels, the teens – Josh and Sophie Newman – will encounter a variety of mythical creatures as they journey across the States.
It’s naturally far too earlier for any casting or even a director – with no studio attached the project doesn’t yet have a writer either, but with everyone still after the next Potter possible, this one is likely to get taken off the market quickly.
Source: http://search.msn.com
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