Sean Daily, at Hotchkiss and Associates, has just started shopping film rights to Ian MacKenzie's City of Strangers (previously titled Open City), a contemporary New York City-set novel about two brothers dealing with the legacy of their father, who was a Nazi sympathizer. (Chris Parris-Lamb at Gernert sold the novel in April to Penguin.) Daily tells us that early responses to the book have been "strong" given the "meatiness of the two central characters."
On the graphic novel front, Nick Harris at RWSH is shopping James Vance and Dan Burr's much-lauded Kings in Disguise--the Harvey Award winner was originally published by Kitchen Sink Press in 1990 before being picked up by Norton. Harris, who admitted that he thinks the work needs to be taken on as a "passion project," is taking the book to a select number of producer and directors interested in literary work. Harris added that he's prepared to wait for the right buyer to take on this story about a family coming undone during the height of the Great Depression.
