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Relativity Acquires Fantasy ACACIA

Production shingle will take on the David Durham novel.

By Jarrod Sarafin July 29, 2008
Source: Hollywood Reporter

ACACIA: BOOK ONE: THE WAR WITH THE MEIN by David Anthony Durham(2007).
© Doubleday

Relativity Media has acquired the rights to David Anthony Durham's fantasy novel Acacia: Book One: The War With the Mein, says The Hollywood Reporter. Published by Doubleday in 2007, the volume is the first installment of a projected trilogy set in the fantasy empire of Acacia. Screenwriter Andrew Grant will adapt the first book in the series. The project will be produced by Relativity CEO Ryan Kavanaugh and Michael De Luca, with Du Luca Prods.' Zach Schiff-Abrams, who brought the project to Relativity, and Tucker Tooley of Relativity as exec producers.

Plot Concept: Leodan Akaran, ruler of the Known World, has inherited generations of apparent peace and prosperity, won ages ago by his ancestors. A widower of high intelligence, he presides over an empire called Acacia, named after the idyllic island from which he rules. He dotes on his four children and hides from them the dark realities of traffic in drugs and human lives on which their prosperity depends.

Leodan hopes that he might change this, but powerful forces stand in his way. A deadly assassin sent from a race called the Mein, exiled long ago to an ice-locked stronghold in the frozen north, strikes at Leodan in the heart of Acacia while the Mein also unleash surprise attacks across the empire. On his deathbed, Leodan puts into play a plan to allow his children to escape, each to his separate destiny. And so his children begin a quest to avenge their father's death and restore the Acacian empire, this time on the basis of universal freedom.