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Awesome options Best novel

Jeff Norton’s London-based prodco Awesome Media & Entertainment has optioned the media rights to a novel by Gillian Best.

Jeff Norton

The Last Wave is the debut book from Bristol-based Best and is published by House of Anansi Press.

Awesome will now begin developing the story for television, with Norton (MetaWars) and former BBC Worldwide and ITV Studios executive Fraser Robinson attached as executive producers.

The rights deal marks Awesome’s first literary acquisition since taking investment from Canada’s Kew Media Group. With Kew’s backing, Awesome is ramping up its scripted development of book-based IP.

Awesome previously optioned TV rights to Jay Gunn’s graphic novel Surface Tension and is co-developing that franchise with Warner Bros-backed Wall to Wall Television.

The Last Wave is set in Dover in the UK and tells the story of a woman who has swum the English Channel 10 times.

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