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Ahmet Zappa Scores Movie and Book Deal
Scott Weinberg at Rotten Tomatoes reports that Dweezil Zappa's less well-known brother, Ahmet Zappa, just scored a big deal with Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer. Ahmet is a first-time screenwriter who has penned a "monster hunter" adventure movie.
Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films have paid $1.5 million for film rights to the unpublished novel Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless, by first-time writer Ahmet Zappa.
Story concerns a young brother and sister who learn their family is part of a long line of monster hunters. The pair squabble constantly but must band together against the most diabolical creature in the universe.
Book is skedded for publication in August from Random House as a hardcover with full-color art. Zappa wrote the story and penned some 300 illustrations.
Apparently this little book caused all sorts of a bidding buffet in Hollywood, but as they often do, The Mouse House & Bruckheimer, Inc. walked away with the prize.
A movie and a book from Random House, too. Not too shabby for a first-time author/screenwriter.
Posted on October 20, 2005
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