EXCLUSIVE: Bestselling creator Melissa de la Cruz’s YA fantasy novel The Rings & The Crown is getting a collection adaptation for Disney+ from twentieth Television, The Gotham Group and three Arts Entertainment, together with Disney Branded Television.
Written by veteran showrunners Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg (Our Kind of People), the collection, now in improvement, is ready in an Arthurian world by which magic exists. It facilities on Princess Marie-Victoria, the inheritor to the mightiest empire on this planet, who’s being pressured right into a political marriage, and her expensive pal Aelwyn Myrddyn, the bastard daughter of Merlin, who’s being pressured into service of the crown. The Annual London Season is simply starting, and as noble households from throughout the globe are gathering to flaunt their wealth and magic at lavish events, behind the scenes, Marie-Victoria, Aelwyn, and others are making strikes to safe political energy, real love, and their futures.
“I am so, so, so excited to partner with Disney once more,” mentioned de la Cruz, who wrote the bestselling The Isle of the Lost novel, the prequel to the Disney Channel blockbuster authentic film Descendants, which has over one million copies in print. “The Ring and The Crown is one of my finest novels, it was inspired by my favorite book of all time, Tolstoy’s War and Peace as well as my favorite mythology of all time, the Arthurian legends. I cannot wait to see it brought to life by such a stellar team, studio and streaming service.”
Harberts and Berg govt produce with de la Cruz, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith Vein, Jeremy Bell and DJ Goldberg; and three Arts’ Richard Abate.
“We are thrilled to be reunited with Charlie Andrews, Reena Singh, and the 20th team,” Berg and Harberts mentioned. “Their vision, combined with The Gotham Group’s passion and expertise, provide the perfect ingredients to craft a romantic, action-packed, supernatural soap with seasons and seasons of stories. We could not be more excited to be a part of bringing this rich universe to life.”
The Ring & The Crown retains Berg and Harberts within the Disney TV fold. They are coming off stints as govt producers on the twentieth Television drama collection for Fox Our Kind of People and as consultants for Disney Channel’s upcoming curler skating comedy collection Saturdays. Longtime writing companions Berg and Harberts, whose credit embody Pepper Dennis, a collection in addition they created, Pushing Daisies, Reign, and Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, are repped by Adventure Media’s Chris von Goetz and legal professional Gretchen Rush.
The Ring And The Crown novel is printed by Disney Publishing Worldwide which is also behind de la Cruz’s The Isle of the Lost franchise whose subsequent books, Return to the Isle of the Lost and Rise of the Isle of the Lost, have been additionally bestsellers.
De la Cruz can be identified for the Blue Bloods collection (with three million copies in print), and the Witches of East End collection. Her latest e-book releases embody bestsellers The Queen’s Assassin and the Alex & Eliza collection, in addition to the graphic novel Gotham High and The Birthday Girl. In 2020, Disney Publishing Worldwide and Melissa de la Cruz launched Melissa de la Cruz Studio, a brand new collaboration which seeks out debut and established authors to create authentic content material. Anne of Greenville by Mariko Tamaki will launch October 2022. De la Cruz is repped by Abate at 3 Arts and Goldsmith Vein on the Gotham Group.
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