A highly competitive auction has been raging for weeks over adaptative rights to S.A. Cosby’s forthcoming novel “King of Ashes,” and we have a winner.
Netflix, Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment and Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground emerged victorious over as many as 11 competing bids, multiple sources familiar with the deal told Variety. Amblin and Higher Ground will develop the book – described as a family crime drama — as a TV series, with Netflix backing.
Spielberg personally got involved to help bring the author over the finish line in recent days, two sources added. Representatives
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