Posted on September 29th, 2006 at 10:55 am by Editor
Warner Brothers Pictures has pre-emptively picked up the rights to “Here, There Be Dragons,” an upcoming children’s novel by James A. Owen, for David Heyman and David Goyer to produce. The book brings together three strangers - John, Jack and Charles - in London during World War I, where they become entrusted with the Imaginarium Geographica, an atlas of all the lands that have ever existed in myth and legend, fable and fairy tale. They end up traveling to the Archipelago of Dreams, fighting the dark forces that threaten two worlds. It is later revealed that the three are future fantasy authors J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams, who met in real life at Oxford and enjoyed a competitive friendship. The book is being launched next week by Simon & Schuster with a massive hardcover printing of 100,000 copies and is one of the company’s big pushes for the year. The plan is to release six more books, one each October.
Heyday Films’ Marc Rosen discovered the story as a two-page outline when Owen was trying to shop film projects around Hollywood. Rosen suggested to Owen, an author and illustrator known for the self-published fantasy comic book series “Starchild,” that he try to do it as a book. Later, when Owen had a manuscript, he sent it to Rosen and Heyman, who at the time were sharing an office with Goyer, with whom they were collaborating on the CBS TV show “Threshold.” Heyman and Goyer used their own coin to option the project and began developing it as a feature.
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February 18, 2007 at 1:24 pm
There is an interview with James A. Owen, the author or Here, There Be Dragons, posted at http://www.pinkraygun.com. The direct link for the interview is http://www.pinkraygun.com/2007/02/18/pink-raygun-interview-8-james-a-owen/