Welcome to the 921st installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. In the first legend of this installment, we take a look at the unusual origins of the hit TV streaming series, School Spirits. An interesting thing that sometimes happens in the world of TV and film is that a book will be optioned before it is actually released. A famous example would be the time that Mario Puzo, the author of the novel that would become The Godfather, sold the movie rights to Paramount Pictures before the book was even finished (it wasn’t even called The Godfather yet, it was still called Mafia) for just $12,500 (Puzo had received a $5,000 advance from his publisher based on a short outline and had not even 100 pages finished when a longer outline got him the Paramount option), with $75,000 to be paid if it was turned into a movie. Therefore, Paramount basically had an automatic moneymaker on its hands when the book was released and became a big hit in 1969, since it paid so little for its option. The studio initially planned on just doing a small budget adaptation, and thus guaranteeing that it would see a profit, but instead, Robert Evans was put in charge of Paramount after the company was purchased by a conglomerate, and Evans decided to make The Godfather a major motion picture (and it proved to be an even bigger movie hit than it was a hit as a novel).School Spirits is about a teenage girl named Maddie Nears (played by Peyton List, of Cobra Kai fame) who appears to have been killed. She awakens in the basement of her high school, and soon learns that she has gone missing, and that she is now stuck hanging out with the ghosts of all the other people who died on the grounds of the high school. The other ghosts are stunned, however, when Maddie learns that she can communicate with her best friend, Simon Elroy (Kristian Flores), and Simon agrees to help Maddie find out who apparently murdered her. She can’t remember what happened to her, so she is relying on Simon to do the investigation, especially since she can’t leave the school grounds.
Welcome to the 921st installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. In the first legend of this installment, we take a look at the unusual origins of the hit TV streaming series, School Spirits.
An interesting thing that sometimes happens in the world of TV and film is that a book will be optioned before it is actually released. A famous example would be the time that Mario Puzo, the author of the novel that would become The Godfather, sold the movie rights to Paramount Pictures before the book was even finished (it wasn’t even called The Godfather yet, it was still called Mafia) for just $12,500 (Puzo had received a $5,000 advance from his publisher based on a short outline and had not even 100 pages finished when a longer outline got him the Paramount option), with $75,000 to be paid if it was turned into a movie. Therefore, Paramount basically had an automatic moneymaker on its hands when the book was released and became a big hit in 1969, since it paid so little for its option. The studio initially planned on just doing a small budget adaptation, and thus guaranteeing that it would see a profit, but instead, Robert Evans was put in charge of Paramount after the company was purchased by a conglomerate, and Evans decided to make The Godfather a major motion picture (and it proved to be an even bigger movie hit than it was a hit as a novel).
School Spirits is about a teenage girl named Maddie Nears (played by Peyton List, of Cobra Kai fame) who appears to have been killed. She awakens in the basement of her high school, and soon learns that she has gone missing, and that she is now stuck hanging out with the ghosts of all the other people who died on the grounds of the high school. The other ghosts are stunned, however, when Maddie learns that she can communicate with her best friend, Simon Elroy (Kristian Flores), and Simon agrees to help Maddie find out who apparently murdered her. She can’t remember what happened to her, so she is relying on Simon to do the investigation, especially since she can’t leave the school grounds.
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