Overview

• Legendary made an outright, preemptive acquisition of the movie rights, with sources telling The Hollywood Reporter the price exceeded $3 million and may be a record for a debut author’s book rights, not accounting for inflation.
• The project is in early development with no filmmakers or cast announced, and the studio has not disclosed deal terms publicly.
• Del Rey is set to publish Alchemised on September 23 with a first printing of 750,000 copies and translations in 21 languages.
• The dark romantasy began as a Draco/Hermione fanfiction and was revised to remove Harry Potter elements, centering on Helena Marino in a world of alchemists and necromancers.
• Author SenLinYu, who uses they/them pronouns, welcomed the deal in a statement, and their prior fanwork Manacled drew more than 10 million AO3 views and over 100,000 five-star Goodreads ratings.