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Random House Children’s Screen Entertainment (RHCSE) has secured its first film deal. The entertainment company acquired worldwide film rights to the sci fi series, Monster Republic. The deal was made in a pre-emptive and pre-publication move with debut author Ben Horton, and agented by Hothouse.
Monster Republic: The Divinity Project will be the first film project from the collaborative venture between Random House Children’s Books (RHCB) and Komixx Entertainment.
Andrew Cole-Bulgin, partner and head of film & TV for RHCSE said: "We took the exciting and somewhat unusual step to jointly develop the creative vision and script for the film, video game and mobile screen content prior to publication with Hothouse Fiction. They have demonstrated extraordinary originality with Monster Republic and we wanted to ensure that this was carried through to all levels of the creative process"
"We are already in talks with a major US studio concerning the production and distribution of the film."
Philippa Dickinson, RHCB m.d., said: "[This] is an exciting example of how RHCB, through its relationship with RHCSE is able to develop a concept from manuscript to a multimedia platform."
Reg White, Hothouse Fiction, said: "I'm delighted to see that Monster Republic is living up to expectations and attracting a great deal of positive attention."
The novel was published by RHCB imprint Corgi in January. Joint venture RHCSE was set up in June last year to produce animated and live-action children’s and family entertainment for the cinema and television from RHCB published books and characters.