The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.” Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon.
We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. “Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. Novik is repped by Cynthia Manson Literary Agency.Official synopsis from the publisher's website: The Uprooted deal marks the first significant move into features.ĭeGeneres is repped by ICM Partners. Her award-winning Temeraire book series was optioned by Peter Jackson in 2006.ĭeGeneres and Kleeman continue to build a strong presence in television, with upwards of six shows in production or on the air. Novik has had brushes with Hollywood before.
Niija Kuykendalland Julia Spirowill oversee the project for the studio. The story has been described as imbued with shades of Beauty and the Beast and Howl’s Moving Castle, the 1986 fantasy novel later turned into an animated feature by Hayao Miyazaki. The price for the man’s protection is that a woman from the village is sent to serve him for 10 years, and to everyone’s surprise, the rather plain Agnieszka is selected.
The plot centers on a young woman named Agnieszka, who lives near the border of an evil wood, with only a wizard named Dragon who seems to keep the danger at bay.
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