Perhaps the biggest cultural difference between the U.K. Croker is best known for scripting The Woman In Black 2: Angel Of DeathīFI London Review: Mark Rylance is the World’s Worst Golfer in Craig Roberts’ Sweet-Natured The Phantom of the Open Drew Reed and Jake Bauman were key in landing that deal and Peter Kang has been overseeing the project for Sony Pictures.
Sony preemptively acquired the feature rights with their own aggressive offer. The publishing deal, made by Simon & Schuster Children’s UK and Simon & Schuster U.S., was the biggest known deal for a children’s debut. The first book in author A.F Steadman’s series, which is set to launch in spring 2022, follows a thirteen-year-old boy whose dreams of becoming a unicorn rider are disrupted when an emerging enemy steals the land’s most powerful unicorn.
Sony Sets ‘High In The Clouds’ Writer Jon Croker To Adapt Record-Breaking Fantasy Novels ‘Skandar And The Unicorn Thief’Įxclusive: Sony Pictures has set Jon Croker ( High In The Clouds) to adapt anticipated fantasy novel series Skandar And The Unicorn Thief, which was acquired by Simon and Schuster and Sony in seven-figure deals last year. The jokes write themselves, though in “ The Phantom of the Open,” screenwriter Simon Farnaby and director Craig Roberts make them sweeter and spryer than they could have been, while a wide-eyed, bucket-hatted Mark Rylance plays Flitcroft with abundant generosity of spirit. It’s tempting to say, then, that anyone taking on a Flitcroft biopic has a large part of the work done for them.
That he managed to repeat the feat multiple times in multiple disguises over the years, earning himself the title of “the world’s worst professional golfer,” tips a real life into the realm of absurdity. A humble shipyard worker from Barrow-in-Furness who decided, on a rogue middle-aged whim, to enter the British Open despite never having played a round of golf in his life, he was practically a living, breathing Ealing Studios hero. If Maurice Flitcroft hadn’t really existed, a British comedy would surely have invented him.
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