Paramount Lands Rights To Best-Selling Novel ‘Nevermoor’ With Michael Gracey Attached To Direct
deadline.comParamount Pictures has acquired the rights to best-selling novel, Nevermoor with Michael Gracey attached to direct the musical adaptation.
Gracey is creating original music for the film with Drew Goddard adapting and producing alongside Sarah Esberg via their Goddard Textiles.The original novel was penned by Jessica Townsend and tells the story of Morrigan Crow, a girl born on the unluckiest day and blamed for all local misfortune, from hailstorms to heart attacks.
Morrigan’s curse dooms her to die on her next birthday. But in a narrow escape, she is spirited away by a man called Jupiter North to the magical city of Nevermoor.
Morrigan has a chance to escape her fate and join the Wundrous Society, an elite group of remarkable people with remarkable talents — but only if she can triumph over hundreds of other children in a series of difficult, dangerous trials.Gracey became one of the more sought directors following the massive box-office success of The Greatest Showman starring Hugh Jackman.
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