I live in New Zealand and wrote "Ripple" - A Dolphin Love Story. I signed on Christmas day so this is very new. However, I've known for some time that he was interested in the story.
The movie would be an animated feature. He feels that now is a good time to get things going as we are covid-free in New Zealand and we have the technology and expertise to do it here. Our covid-free status might make it easier to raise the enormous amounts of money it takes to create animated film.
The book exists only as the novel I wrote but it is the best-reviewed New Zealand novel on Amazon.
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Congrats out of curiosity did you have a lawyer look over the script beforehand, as everyone tells me to do this first.
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If you need anybody for voice work let me know
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Congratulations Tui!
Kacee, I did not. But I have a lawyer friend among my author's critique group. He acts as an agent as well as a publisher. I will probably ask him to check the film contract when and if we get to that stage. I didn't think it was necessary at the option stage.
Also there is a lot of magic hanging over this project. It feels strangely right. I have received powerful clues from the universe that this film-maker is the right guy. If others tried to push him aside I would be upset. And yet I have never even met him face to face. He only has the story because my literary agent sent it to him and oh boy! I did trust that agent, although he died shortly after sending Ripple away. There is an amazing story I will tell you if you wish me to, about what happened when he received the package with the book in it.
The story was published on the back cover of the Czech translated edition.
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Congratulations!
I write about dolphins, partly because I live among them. I paddle aroun in my kayak and meet marine animals face-to-face in their own world on their own terms.I am the one in the stern of this double kayak, filming with my head-mounted gopro. The dolphins chose to swim with us and carried us along in their slipstream. We could never have kept up with them otherwise
https://youtu.be/1ZzUP3AO8Cc