EXCLUSIVE: Lauren Oliver — the bestselling YA author, screenwriter and producer known for titles like ‘Panic’ and ‘Before I Fall’ — has today announced the launch of her new media company, StoryGiants, also naming projects currently on its slate
StoryGiants is a decentralized company with employees and partners in L.A., NY, Palo Alto, Austin, Dubai and France, which will look to create powerful and compelling stories across a variety of mediums, leveraging both technological and structural innovation to improve production efficiency and grow the value of great IP faster.
The company will execute at every stage of story creation, from development to production to growth into market, assigning purpose-built teams of producers, writers, publishing executives, designers, engineers, digital creators and animators specialized to each endeavor. StoryGiants follows more than a decade of work for Oliver at the company Glasstown Entertainment, founded with Lexa Hillyer. That banner also afforded her an opportunity to work with a diverse assortment of artists, writers and creators, with Oliver ultimately revamping its book model and expanding through it into both TV and visual media.
The technology division of StoryGiants will be led by Board Member, Soulaiman Itani, a pioneering senior artificial intelligence software engineer, who founded AR and immersive computing leader Atheer in 2011. Projects in StoryGiants’ pipeline at various stages include:, created by Stephanie Nihon, is StoryGiants’ anchor children’s property and provides the first successful commercial application of StoryGiants’ VFX production technologies.
— the Prime Video series, based on her own 2014 novel. She previously exec produced a film adaptation of her novel, directed by Ry Russo-Young and starring Zoey Deutch, which was released by Open Road in 2017. Other works from the author include the
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