Ivy + Bean Ebook Cowl – Image: Amazon
Netflix will likely be increasing its child’s lineup of flicks within the subsequent couple of years as we’ve discovered Netflix will likely be adapting Ivy + Bean right into a function movie.
The ebook collection comes from American writer Annie Barrows who’s the writer behind grownup novels The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and The Reality In keeping with Us but additionally a prolific kids’s author. Titles in Barrows’s kids’s lineup consists of Magic within the Combine, Nothing, and the ebook collection to be tailored by Netflix, Ivy + Bean.
Kathy Waugh (Molly of Denali & Arthur) will likely be writing the film with Anne Brogan and Melanie Stokes producing.
Right here’s the logline and what you’ll be able to anticipate from the movie:
“When 7 12 months previous Ivy strikes into the neighborhood, 7 12 months previous Bean at first thinks that they are going to by no means be associates. However oh boy was she fallacious! Ivy seems to be one of the best buddy that anybody may ever have. They’re united in having wildly over-active imaginations and a twin chemistry. When Bean learns that Ivy is a witch-in-training, they workforce as much as solid a spell on Bean’s imply older sister, Nancy, that may make Nancy dance without end.”
Kindle Entertainment is hooked up to supply the function movie. They already work with Netflix on a few tasks together with The A Checklist (which Netflix took over full distribution for the second season from the BBC) and Kiss Me First which was a Netflix co-production with Channel 4.
The precise format of the film wasn’t listed which means we don’t know whether or not it’s going to be a live-action film or animated title nonetheless, we strongly suspect it’ll be live-action given the manufacturing studios’ earlier titles.
Manufacturing is because of begin on the film in summer time 2021.
The film will likely be ripe for sequels with a wealth of books to adapt from. In complete, 11 books have launched below the Ivy + Bean collection.
Supply: Issue 1224 of ProductionWeekly.