Film Adaptation
The film rights for The Borrible Trilogy have been optioned by several film studios and producers since the release of the first book. The first major studio that optioned the film rights was the Walt Disney Pictures/Touchstone Pictures. Touchstone Pictures hired writer Mark Andrus (As Good As It Gets, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood) to write an adaptation. Another famous production company that optioned the rights was Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan´s Working Title Films. The last company that optioned the rights in 2004 was CUBA Pictures, the film development arm of literary agents Curtis Brown, who also represented Michael De Larrabeiti.
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