Bestselling Bloomsbury author lands major Hollywood deal

(Sharecast News) - Walt Disney Studios has snapped up the rights to author Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures series of children's books, her publisher Bloomsbury Publishing confirmed on Wednesday. Disney has secured the theatrical film and ancillary rights to the bestselling fantasy book series, with the first two books to be adapted by the author into feature film screenplays.

Financial details were not disclosed.

The Harry Potter publisher released the first Impossible Creatures book in 2023, and it quickly became a bestseller.

The first two books of the five-book series - Impossible Creatures and its sequel, The Poisoned King - have now sold jointly over 1 million copies in 37 territories.

Bloomsbury holds the print, ebook and audio rights to series in the UK, Europe and Commonwealth.

Bloomsbury has published Rundell, who also writes non-fiction for adults, since 2015.