EXCLUSIVE: King Kong, the largest beast of all of them, is about to supersize within the guide world.
The King Kong of Cranium Island model is to develop into the preliminary focus for World Builder Publishing, a brand new division of Dannie Festa’s administration and franchise constructing firm World Builder Leisure.
World Builder will companion with DeVito ArtWorks and the Merian C. Cooper Property to develop books that increase the King Kong of Cranium Island universe. DeVito is the creator, creator and artist behind King Kong of Cranium Island, which is a licensed rewrite of Merian C. Cooper’s authentic King Kong movie from 1933.
“We’re thrilled to have World Builder Publishing as our publishing companion,” stated DeVito. “Their experience in franchise-building and storytelling makes them the right dwelling for Kong’s subsequent chapter. Extending World Builder’s attain into the usually irritating and slow-moving world of conventional publishing brings a welcome different to the business.”
World Builder Publishing will search to supply authors a quick observe to market, whereas exploring movie and tv adaptation potential. In that sense, it’s just like the multi-platform improvement partnership between publishing Gungnir and Storyteller Media that we reported first on earlier as we speak.
World Builder founder Festa, generally known as government producer of the Trolls franchise, and his colleague Nick Terry will lead World Builder Publishing, prioritizing “daring, authentic voices throughout all genres.”
“That is about extra than simply publishing books,” stated Festa. “We’ve at all times been centered on nurturing mental properties that may thrive throughout a number of platforms and we’re enthusiastic about collaborating with creators who’ve huge concepts and wish to see these concepts attain their full potential. Integrating publishing into our choices allows us to create alternatives for our purchasers throughout numerous inventive disciplines by bridging the hole between publishing and leisure.”
World Builder’s present shopper record consists of Unusual Darling writer-director J.T. Mollner and publishers Markosia (Darkish Mists) and Fable Works (Slugblaster).
The corporate’s display slate features a Disney+ collection primarily based on the King Kong of Cranium Island franchise, which Deadline first revealed in 2022. That collection, which has Atomic Monster on board and Paper Women creator Stephany Folsom connected as author, adopted the Merian C. Cooper Property teaming with DeVito to provide new novelizations that have been used as supply materials for the collection, together with the unique guide IP.
A live-action collection, King Kong Cranium Island, was in improvement at MarVista Leisure and IM International Tv in 2017 with a unique inventive staff, additionally primarily based on Cooper’s King Kong and DeVito ArtWorks’ Cranium Island, with Festa government producing.
World Builder’s characteristic movies Mercy Run and Revived from Danny McNair and Mike Gibson and Casey Tebo’s Saint Patrick, which Cross Creek Photos is about to shoot in the summertime. General, World Builder has greater than 600 titles in its movie and TV library.
