The present is the primary undertaking coated underneath an IP improvement deal the 2 firms have signed with Taiwanese IP firm Million Star Leisure.
Singapore-based leisure firm mm2 and Taiwan’s Man Man Er revealed Tuesday at Hong Kong’s Filmart that they're teaming as much as develop a high-end collection adaptation of the bestselling Taiwanese guide Tales of Thriller. The undertaking is the primary title to emerge from a brand new improvement deal the 2 companions have signed with Taiwanese IP firm Million Star Leisure.
Tales of Thriller tells the tales of a mysterious previous lady who grants needs by using talismans she writes out in lengthy slips of yellow paper. Every want might be granted, so long as the wisher agrees to her worth — and accepts the implications of their needs.
The collection is customized from the best-selling supernatural guide collection of the identical identify by the favored Taiwanese author who goes by the pen identify Teensy. Teensy can be the writer of Agent From Above, a title that was tailored by Netflix as a part of its current Chinese language-language content material slate. There are presently seven books within the Tales of Thriller collection, giving mm2 and Man Man Er loads of room to run with the undertaking if it proves profitable. Screenwriter Chen Wen Tzu (V-Focus) is adapting the books for the display.
“That is the second undertaking from writer Teensy that we're creating right into a collection, focusing on an worldwide market,” says Ng Say Yong, managing director of mm2 Leisure. Teensy is a robust storyteller within the fantasy style, well-known for integrating nativist mythology and occult legend into tales of the fashionable, city world. Tales of the supernatural are all the time a enjoyable escape from actuality.”
Added Chen Chi Yuan, common supervisor at Man Man Er: “The lead character of Fu Zhi Po Po is a extremely empathic character, with a quiet energy and an charisma, who has to navigate the expressed and unexpressed needs of her shoppers. She can be a shapeshifter who seems ageless to those that meet her. This might be an thrilling function and we're looking out for the proper actor to be forged as the feminine lead.”