A Darker Shade of Magic

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Gerard Butler’s G-Base Acquires ‘A Darker Shade Of Magic’ For Series Adaptation


Gerard Butler and Alan Siegel’s G-BASE productions has acquired rights to V.E. Schwab’s fantasy novel A Darker Shade Of Magic for series development. Butler, Siegel and Danielle Robinson will produce with Schwab writing the pilot. The project is being eyed as a limited series.

The book is set in four parallel worlds, with four parallel Londons ruled by different magical powers and monarchies. Grey London, where the people have been told that magic is a myth; Red London, where magic is embraced and thrives; White London, where magic is used by the rulers against it’s people; and Black London, where magic has overpowered the people and corrupted the world beyond repair.

Schwab is also the author of Vicious, which is set up at Story Mining with Scott Free producing. She is repped by CAA and Waxman Leavell Literary.

G-BASE is behind upcoming feature London Has Fallen (Gramercy/ Millennium), the sequel to box office hit Olympus Has Fallen. They recently finished shooting The Headhunter’s Calling for director Mark Williams and Voltage Films in Toronto. G-BASE is repped by CAA and Gray Krauss Stratford Sandler Des Rochers LLP.

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doing a happy dance!!  I have been harping on the idea that Gerry should get involved in doing a mini-series on tv/cable. 

I wonder if he will be part of the cast when this project is green-lighted, love to see him have a role!

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Would love to see Gerry do some TV series. Maybe he might get more involved with this on the acting side.

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Gerry is very busy indeed

www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gerard-butler-neal-moritz-team-adapt-fantasy-novel-a-darker-shade-magic-978771


Gerard Butler, Neal Moritz Team to Adapt Fantasy Novel 'A Darker Shade of Magic' (Exclusive)


Sony won a bidding war for the rights to Victoria Schwab's novel.
Sony is conjuring up an adaptation of the YA fantasy novel A Darker Shade of Magic.

The studio has won a bidding war and is in negotiations to pick up the rights to Victoria Schwab's fantasy series.

Gerard Butler is on board to produce the adaptation via his shingle, G-Base, along with the company's Alan Siegel and Danielle Robinson. Neal Moritz, who has a first-look deal at Sony, also will produce as will Schwab.

Darker Shade centers on Kell, a magician who has the ability to travel between parallel universes connected by one magical city, in this case London. Kell can travel between four parallel worlds within London, including Grey London, where residents believe magic is a myth, Red London (where magic is revered), White London (where magic is battled over) and the dark Black London, where magic has overpowered the people. When Kell meets Delilah Bard, a London pickpocket, he's whisked into a universe-hopping adventure.

The book first hit shelves in February 2015, and the rights were available at that time, but it was only over the past couple weeks that a bidding war broke out for the rights. The studio beat out Fox 2000 and eOne as well as Lionsgate in the bidding, according to sources.

Schwab followed A Darker Shade of Magic with two other books in the series: A Gathering of Shadows in 2016 and A Conjuring of Light, which just hit shelves on Feb. 21 this year. The trilogy could be ideal for a film franchise as the second and third installments expand on the magical world introduced in Schwab's first book. Filmmakers are said to be already lining up for a chance to put their stamp on this fantasy.

Toby Ascher is executive producing. Exec Matt Milam and Columbia Pictures president Sanford Panitch will oversee on behalf of the studio.

Moritz last produced Passengers, the sci-fi movie that starred Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence, and next has The Fate of the Furious, which opens in April.

Butler, as an actor, has two movies in the can: environmental disaster movie Geostorm and action thriller Hunter Killer. He acts as a producer on the latter.

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www.tor.com/2017/02/24/v-e-schwabs-a-darker-shade-of-magic-will-be-adapted-for-film/


V.E. Schwab’s A Darker Shade of Magic Is Changing Direction, Now Headed to the Big Screen!


Last February we reported that V.E. Schwab’s alternate-universe fantasy novel A Darker Shade of Magic was coming to television courtesy of Gerard Butler’s production company G-BASE. Well today we’re excited to update that information: A Darker Shade of Magic will now be a film! According to The Hollywood Reporter, Butler will produce along with Alan Siegel, Danielle Robinson, and Neal Moritz. While Schwab is no longer writing the script, she will be producing as well.


Schwab shared the update on Twitter, saying:

THR also mentioned a tantalizing possibility for the future:

Schwab followed A Darker Shade of Magic with two other books in the series: A Gathering of Shadows in 2016 and A Conjuring of Light, which just hit shelves on Feb. 21 this year. The trilogy could be ideal for a film franchise as the second and third installments expand on the magical world introduced in Schwab’s first book. Filmmakers are said to be already lining up for a chance to put their stamp on this fantasy.