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EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century is looking to head back to the high seas as sources tell Deadline the studio is developing a new Master and Commander pic with A Monster Calls scribe Patrick Ness adapting the script. Insiders add it is still early days and no director or talent is attached at this time. The 2003 pic Master and…

EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Ness' book Burn, set in 1957 about a girl and her father who hire a dragon to work their farm, is being developed as a television adaptation after Bad Robot optioned the rights. Ness, who has written nine books as well as the screenplay to 2016 fantasy feature A Monster Calls starring Sigourney…

EXCLUSIVE: In a highly competitive six-way bidding war, Apple Studios has acquired Snow Blind, a thriller adaptation of the BOOM! Studios graphic novel by Ollie Masters (The Kitchen) and Tyler Jenkins. Jake Gyllenhaal is attached to star and Gustav Möller (The Guilty) will make his English language directing debut…

EXCLUSIVE: Multiple bids are in on Snow Blind. This an adaptation of the graphic novel by Ollie Masters (The Kitchen) that has Jake Gyllenhaal attached to star, with Gustav Möller, who directed the 2018 Danish thriller The Guilty, making his English-language directorial debut. The script will be written by Patrick Ness…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has picked up an original feature pitch titled The Monster, from Patrick Ness, who co-wrote the studio’s forthcoming sci-fi film, Chaos Walking, directed by Doug Liman and starring Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley. Temple Hill is attached to produce the pic, which is being described as a sparky…

EXCLUSIVE: Dan Mazer has been set to direct Anya’s Ghost, a supernatural comedy based on the graphic novel by Vera Brosgol. Entertainment One is financing; Bolt Pictures’ Jeremy Bolt is producing with Bullitt Entertainment’s Benedict Carver and eOne. Script was written by Patrick Ness, the author and screenwriter…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s a timely story about a veteran’s trouble with his broken family after returning home from war. Tobey Maguire has acquired George Saunders’ short story Home and is developing it as a feature film with A Monster Calls author-screenwriter Patrick Ness already hired to adapt. Home first appeared in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate is set to launch Chaos Walking, the Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland starrer based on the popular young adult novel by Patrick Ness, at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. The project, which is directed by Doug Liman, is currently in pre-production and is sure to be one of the most coveted titles to…

The BBC said today it will be launching a young-adult spinoff from its Doctor Who franchise titled Class. Written by acclaimed YA author Patrick Ness, the series is set in contemporary London. Incredible dangers are breaking through the walls of time and space, and with darkness coming, London is unprotected. Much of…

EXCLUSIVE: Felicity Jones is making a deal to star in A Monster Calls, the Juan Antonio Bayona-directed adaptation of the Patrick Ness children’s fantasy novel. I’ve heard that she will play the character of Mum, and that the filmmakers are courting Liam Neeson for the role of the Monster, though I am not sure that…