EXCLUSIVE: Publishing home Gungnir and Curiosity Leisure‘s Storyteller Media are teaming to deliver a slate of initiatives to web page and display. The pair will work to develop a slate of book-to-film titles that can be printed by the partnership.
Every can have multi-platform potential and profit from the enter of the artistic group at Curiosity, whose founder Adhrucia Apana was exec producer on the likes of HBO’s The Survivor and have movie Capone.
The primary titles from the initiative are Gina Din’s autobiography, Daughter of Africa, which is being re-released in North America this yr. Accompanying it will likely be a brand new work from Din, billed as a “companion workbook on management and legacy.”
Kenyan businesswoman Din is named one for founding Africa’s strongest and effectively revered PR companies, The Gina Din Group.
Additionally on the slate is Broadway star Darian Sanders’ debut memoir, Don’t Concern Your Roar, which Storyteller – the publishing arm of Curiosity – launched late final yr. Sanders is greatest recognized for his position as Simba in Disney’s nationwide Lion King stage tour, and his guide is billed as “a uncooked and uplifting journey of religion, resilience, and self-discovery.”
A full publishing slate for 2025-26 can be unveiled “in coming months”, with genres spanning memoir, style fiction, graphic novel and social affect storytelling. Every can be designed for TV and movie adaptation.
Gungnir and Storyteller declare their alliance is “a brand new mannequin in publishing” that permits creators to retain possession, safe mainstream distribution, obtain “tailor-made” publicity help and see their work thought-about for display adaptation “from day one.”
“At Storyteller, we begin each publishing dialog by asking, ‘What affect can this story make?’” mentioned Charles Allen, Writer of Storyteller Media. “We imagine Daughter of Africa and Don’t Concern Your Roar are excellent examples of tales making a significant affect, and we’re thrilled to amplify their voices with readers and viewers around the globe.”
“Our aim at Gungnir has all the time been to create narratives that transcend the anticipated,” mentioned Matt Medney, CEO of Gungnir Publishing. “Storyteller’s method to turning books into cross-media experiences aligns completely with our mission. This partnership offers daring voices the platform they deserve – in print, on display, and past.”
Curiosity’s founder, Apana, mentioned the initiative would permit the companions “to go upstream, discovering daring, visionary IP early – and cultivating all of it the best way to the display,” including, “That is how we construct legacy tales that final.”
Curiosity is at the moment engaged on Ozark co-creator Mark Williams’ subsequent sequence, a function movie co-production with Panay Movies and a TV present from the Neese brothers, who’re recognized for his or her work on Netflix YA drama The Umbrella Academy.
