Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Muncle Trogg

3/31/11 - Sony Pictures Animation has acquired the movie rights to Janet Foxley’s children’s book Muncle Trogg, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Jane Startz is executive producing while Kane Lee of Jane Startz Productions co-produces.  The British book was the winner of the 2010 Times/Chicken House children’s fiction prize which seeks to honor unpublished authors. Trogg’s win led to a book deal which saw the book released in the UK and Australia; Chicken House/Scholastic will publish the book in the US and Canada in spring 2012.  The story is set in a community of giants who live a volcano and centers on a tiny giant (which makes him human-sized) laughed at for his size. He ends up saving his family in a story that involves a solar-powered dragon, a disgraced brother and a kidnapped child.

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