User blog:LordTBT/News:Viv Loves Film to Represent Entire Jacques Catalog

Contributed by LordTBT at 5:52PM GMT, 9 July 2021

Emma Topping

Viv Loves Film, the agency helmed by Emma Topping, an executive producer for the upcoming Netflix Redwall movie and co-producer of the Martin the Warrior event series, has signed a global representation deal with Brian Jacques’ estate, the Redwall Abbey Company.

According to a press release, Viv Loves Film will "represent all of the estate's non-publishing rights, including film, television, stage, radio and consumer products, for Jacques’ entire catalogue of published and unpublished works, excluding the Redwall book series."

Two things stand out to me in that sentence:

1) Consumer products! 2) Unpublished works? We are definitely interested in any unpublished works of Brian Jacques, and truly hope to see those become published works.

"Collaboration is at the heart of Viv Loves Film and we are excited to have the opportunity to deliver a reimagining of all of Brian’s works on the screen and beyond to his fans, old and new," said Topping in a statement.

This deal is inclusive of the Castaways Of The Flying Dutchman trilogy, Urso Brunov and the White Emperor, The Ribbajack & Other Curious Yarns, The Tale of Urso Brunov: Little Father of All Bears, and Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales.

"The recent deal that Emma brokered with Netflix for the entire world of Redwall has garnered further interest in the remaining non-Redwall works and we will be exploring the chance of realising these well loved titles in a similar fashion," the Redwall Abbey Company said.

This is all very, very exciting. We could see Ben and Ned of Castaways in a movie - or a horror streaming series with each episode as a different Seven Strange And Ghostly Tales story.

"We’re passionate about introducing the world to all of Brian’s fantastic works - especially on screen! Stay tuned," Viv Loves Film told us in a tweet.

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