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Ness' Burn to hit the small screen with Bad Robot
US film and TV production company Bad Robot has optioned Patrick Ness’ Burn for a TV adaptation.
Rights for Burn were acquired through CAA, agent Michelle Kass, and Howard Abramson, Ness' US attorney. Ness will write and executive produce the adaptation, with Kass and Abramson representing his screenwriting deal.
Burn (Walker Books, 2020) is set in 1957 in the middle of the cold war and follows Sarah Dewhurst, a biracial teen, and her father, who are outcasts in their town of Frome, Washington. They are forced to hire a dragon, Kazimir, to work their farm, something only the poorest ever resort to. But the dragon has arrived on the farm with a prophecy on his mind. A prophecy that involves an assassin, dragon worshippers, FBI agents in hot pursuit and Sarah herself.
Ness is the author of nine books and previously wrote the screenplay for 2016 feature "A Monster Calls".
