New Regency Regency has acquired the feature film rights to Stephen Giles’ novel “The Boy at the Keyhole.”
The novel was bought for publishing preemptively in the U.S. by HarperCollins’ Hanover Square Press in a six-figure two-book deal, and will be published as their lead title in October 2018. The book is also to be featured at this years London Book Festival. Australian rights were pre-empted by Penguin Australia.
New Regency’s Arnon Milchan will produce the project.
“I am over the moon that a production company with the pedigree of New Regency have shown such faith in ‘The Boy at the Keyhole,'” Giles said. “It’s a story that means a great deal to me, and I’m thrilled to think that it might have a life beyond the page.”
Plot centers on a British boy who, after his mother is abruptly called away to America, begins to...
The novel was bought for publishing preemptively in the U.S. by HarperCollins’ Hanover Square Press in a six-figure two-book deal, and will be published as their lead title in October 2018. The book is also to be featured at this years London Book Festival. Australian rights were pre-empted by Penguin Australia.
New Regency’s Arnon Milchan will produce the project.
“I am over the moon that a production company with the pedigree of New Regency have shown such faith in ‘The Boy at the Keyhole,'” Giles said. “It’s a story that means a great deal to me, and I’m thrilled to think that it might have a life beyond the page.”
Plot centers on a British boy who, after his mother is abruptly called away to America, begins to...
- 4/10/2018
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
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