Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to the Jack Meggitt-Phillips novel “The Beast and Bethany” with Fantastic Beasts Beasts and Where to Find Them producer David Heyman attached, Variety reports.
Described as “Lemony Snicket meets Dorian Gray,” the novel from Meggitt-Phillips, which marks his debut, won’t be published by Egmont until 2021.
The story follows a shallow man named Ebenezer Tweezer and a young girl named Bethany, and the prospect of at least one of them getting eaten by a beast in the attic.
Heyman and Warner Bros. have teamed up before on the multi-billion-dollar Harry Potter franchise and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them franchise.