Creepy fantasy book Daughter of Smoke and Bone being adapted by Paramount

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Last Updated on August 5, 2021

According to Deadline.com, Paramount Pictures is negotiating a deal in the $700,000 range to acquire screen rights to DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE, a fantasy-horror novel by Laini Taylor about angels and other strange creatures.

Here’s the synopsis for the book:
Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.


In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.


And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.


Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious “errands”; she speaks many languages–not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she’s about to find out.

A devil’s supply of human teeth? Weird.

Apparently the deal for the movie rights is close to being done, so let’s assume we’ll hear about a screenwriter soon.

Source: Deadline.com

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