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Deryni Rising
10/24/08 - Columbia Pictures is bringing Katherine Kurtz's fantasy book Deryni Rising to the big screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  The studio has picked up Deryni as a spec script by Alex Sabeti. Jimmy Miller is producing via his Mosaic banner.  Deryni is a historical fantasy novel first published in 1970 that launched Kurtz's Deryni Kingdom series, which, almost 40 years later, encompasses five trilogies, short stories and reference books.  The story is set in a medieval kingdom of humans alongside the Deryni, a race of people with psychic and magical abilities. The first novel centers on a young prince who, after the death of his father the king, must defend his throne from a Deryni usurper.

AlienAlmanac.com 2008