The network also has been very active buying its own IP. One of its first major moves in that area is the acquisition of the“We have a book scout in New York in addition to our development teams,” Fox Entertainment Presidenttold Deadline at TCA. “We are going to take each property and look at it – what is the best way to package this book, who are the best auspices to help bring this to life, what studio are they based at.
When the Fox book scout recently called to say that the rights were available, “we moved in there and grabbed them.” Starting next week, Thorn and his team will start searching for a creative team to shepherd the adaptation.. It consists of six novels about the Spellmans, a close-knit family of private investigators who are intensely suspicious and spend much time investigating each other. At one point, the novels were in development as a feature at Paramount.