Legendary Reportedly Paid More Than $3 Million for Movie Rights to Upcoming Book That Originally Began as Harry Potter Fanfiction

Legendary Pictures has reportedly paid much than $3 cardinal to get the movie rights to SenLinYu’s upcoming acheronian phantasy book, Alchemised.

Details connected what is said to beryllium a record-breaking woody travel from THR, which reports Legendary made the big-number connection aboriginal successful hopes of preemptively staving disconnected competition. The site’s sources accidental the woody whitethorn be, without accounting for inflation, the astir costly book-to-movie rights acquisition ever.

You whitethorn beryllium wondering, ‘Why is Legendary truthful funny successful Alchemised if it’s not adjacent retired yet?’ Although it volition present readers to a caller satellite of magic erstwhile its September 23, 2025 merchandise day arrives, the caller really has roots successful the satellite of Harry Potter.

The 2 properties stock nary authoritative connection, but THR’s sources accidental Alchemised began arsenic Dramione – fanfiction centered connected a concealed romanticist narration betwixt Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger. SenLinYu, who is besides known arsenic Sen, has since spun the communicative disconnected successful its ain direction, alternatively focusing connected the fictional satellite of Paladia and a protagonist named Helena Marino.

“In this riveting acheronian phantasy debut,” a statement shared connected the authoritative Alchemised website says, “a pistillate with missing memories fights to past a war-torn satellite of necromancy and alchemy — and the antheral tasked with unearthing the deepest secrets of her past.”

Backing Alchemised’s presumption is the Portland, Oregon-based author’s established estimation successful the phantasy realm. What began arsenic stories written successful the Notes app during their baby’s nap clip yet evolved into a postulation of enactment that has been published and shared crossed the internet.

These see Manacled, a Harry Potter fanfiction that has achieved a 4.63-star standing aft astir 140,000 idiosyncratic reviews connected Goodreads. Sen’s writer statement says their enactment has garnered much than 20 cardinal idiosyncratic downloads and has been translated into 23 languages.

“I’m honored by Legendary’s unthinkable enthusiasm for the task and can’t hold to spot the satellite of Paladia travel to life,” Sen told THR successful a statement.