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Screen rights to Nix’s ‘The Keys to the Kingdom’ series sold

Herschend Entertainment Studios has acquired film and television rights to Garth Nix’s seven-book fantasy series ‘The Keys to the Kingdom’ (A&U), reports Deadline.

Jill Grinberg Literary Management sold rights on behalf of Nix to Herschend Entertainment Studios, the media arm of Herschend Enterprises, with both Nix and Herschend Entertainment Studios also represented by Creative Artists Agency.

Nix will serve as an executive producer for the project, alongside vice president of Herschend Entertainment Studios Julie Phillips.

Nix’s middle-grade novel Frogkisser! (A&U) is currently being adapted into a live-action/animated musical film by US-based Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios.

 

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