In a deal worth substantial seven-figures, Walt Disney Studios won an auction to acquire rights to Impossible Creatures , the fantasy series by acclaimed British author Katherine Rundell . She will adapt the first two series books into screenplays.
Impossible Creatures has become a publishing phenomenon on the order of Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and Twilight Saga . Two of the five planned books have been published; Impossible Creatures was published in 2023, and the second installment, The Poisoned King , just debuted. Rundell just became the first U.K. children’s author since J.K. Rowling to simultaneously reach the No. 1 position on the children’s book charts in both the U.K. and the U.S. Her books so far have sold more than four million copies worldwide, and in 20