VARIETY reports JIM HENSON Pictures has optioned
Vonda N. McIntyre's sci-fi novel THE MOON AND THE SUN,
which is set during an alternate 17th century where
a young woman tries to free a mythical sea monster
that France's King Louis XVI plans to test for its
rumored immortality and extract a treasure believed
to be hidden in its body. The trade adds that Laura
Harrington (Secrets) and McIntyre will write its script,
and Christopher Renshaw (The Mikado) is expected to direct.
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