Amazon and Fox Want to Steal Your Child
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Deals, Distribution, 20th Century Fox, Movie Marketing
Amazon.com is taking over the world! Not content with selling everything in the world at the cheapest prices, Amazon is teaming up with 20th Century Fox to bring Keith Donahue's fantasy novel, The Stolen Child, to the big screen. The e-tailer has owned the rights to the novel since 2006, but has only just set up the property with Fox, only to be delayed again with the writer's strike.
The book is to be adapted by the talented Ron Nyswaner, the pen behind Philadelphia and The Painted Veil. The material seems like a brilliant fit, as Donahue's novel centers on a man who was kidnapped by hobgoblins in his youth, and replaced with a lookalike. The novel follows both versions of the character as they grapple with their new lives in an unfamiliar world.
Though they undoubtedly could, Amazon will not be financing the film. Instead, Fox will pick up the tab while Amazon markets the flick through their multitude of websites, one of which is IMDB. They will share producer credit with Marc Platt, who also produced the little-seen fantasy The Seeker: The Dark is Rising. No doubt Amazon will make sure The Stolen Child is marketed much better -- though lacking a head of development, executives all over the company will be overseeing production, so whether it will be made better is debatable.
Amazon has slowly been creeping into the film business, launching productions like Amazon Theater with Ridley Scott, and acquiring the LA-based company Without a Box. A full length feature is just the next step. And then, of course, global domination. Maybe the world will be a better place if run by Amazon. They aren't even daunted by holiday shipping, surely they could end poverty and war.
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2-23-2008 @ 6:03AM
tomtownend said...
presumably they're going to settle up with Maurice Sendak first;
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Outside-Over-There-Caldecott-Collection/dp/0064431851/ref=pd_bbs_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203764534&sr=8-7
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