Relativity Media Acquires Acacia Film Rights
Posted on August 27, 2008
SFCrowsnest.com reports that David Anthony Durham's epic fantasy series Acacia is being made into a movie. Andrew Grant will write the screenplay.
In the book, Leodan Akaran, ruler of the Known World, has inherited generations of fragile peace and prosperity. He is lord of an empire called Acacia and has four children, who he tries to protect from the harsh realities of the drug and slave trade on which the empire's wealth depends.The film will be based on the first novel in the project trilogy, Acacia: Book One: The War With the Mein. Variety notes that Acacia was Kirkus Reviews Ten Best Works of Fiction in 2007 and one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2007. For more information about the series check author David Anthony Durham's website.An assassin sent from a race called the Mein, in exile in a polar stronghold in the north, murders Leodan while various enemies unleash surprise attacks across the empire. His children escape and begin a quest to restore the empire as a clean democracy.
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