\t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t \t\t \t\t \t\t \t\t \t \t\t\t\t\t \tLit agent Lucy Stille ran an aggressive sales process with up to 12 competing bids, insiders say<\/p>\n
\t \t \t \t\t\t \t\t\t \t \t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGetty Images \t\t\t\t\t \t \t\t\t \t\t \t \t \t \t \t\t\t\t \tA highly competitive auction has been raging for weeks over adaptative rights to S.A. Cosby\u2019s forthcoming novel \u201cKing of Ashes,\u201d and we have a winner.<\/p>\n
\tNetflix, Steven Spielberg\u2019s Amblin Entertainment and Barack and Michelle Obama\u2019s Higher Ground emerged victorious over as many as 11 competing bids, multiple sources familiar with the deal told\u00a0Variety. Amblin and Higher Ground will develop the book \u2013 described as a family crime drama \u2014 \u00a0as a TV series, with Netflix backing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\tSpielberg personally got involved to help bring the author over the finish line in recent days, two sources added. Representatives for all three companies did not immediately return Variety\u2019s requests for comment. \t<\/p>\n
\tVeteran lit agent Lucy Stille represented Cosby in the sale process. The author\u2019s popularity has exploded in recent years, as has his brand of Southern noir crime fiction. His previous works include \u201cMy Darkest Prayer,\u201d \u201cBlacktop Wasteland,\u201d \u201cRazorblade Tears\u201d and \u201cAll the Sinners Bleed.\u201d The latter is already in development with Amblin and Higher Ground, announced in June as another crime series.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\t\t\t \t\t\tPopular on Variety\t\t \t \t\t \t \t\u201cKing of Ashes,\u201d which others involved in the auction noted had hints of \u201cThe Godfather,\u201d will not hit shelves until next summer. The title will debut on the new Flatiron Books imprint Pine & Cedar. It will mark the first of a three-book deal he\u2019s engaged in at Flatiron.<\/p>\n
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Lit agent Lucy Stille ran an aggressive sales process with up to 12 competing bids, insiders say Getty Images A highly competitive auction has been raging for weeks over adaptative rights to S.A. Cosby\u2019s forthcoming novel \u201cKing of Ashes,\u201d and we have a winner. Netflix, Steven Spielberg\u2019s Amblin Entertainment and Barack and Michelle Obama\u2019s Higher […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}