


MGM’s first-look feature film production deal with Goldsman and his production company, Weed Road Pictures. The animated feature - envisioned as a FANTASIA-esque musical experience, featuring music penned by Brown - follows the adventures of Maestro Mouse as he traverses the globe, recruiting an orchestra like no other. For the first time ever, Brown will adapt his book for the big screen with Goldsman producing the project alongside Weed Road Pictures’ Greg Lessans. Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) and Academy Award® winning writer Akiva Goldsman are developing an animated feature film adaptation of the children’s picture book, WILD SYMPHONY, by #1 New York Times best-selling author Dan Brown and with illustrations by Susan Batori. He lives in New England with his yellow lab, Winston.īrown’s latest novel, Origin, explores two of the fundamental questions of humankind: Where do we come from? Where are we going? He is a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he later returned to teach English before focusing his attention full time to writing. These themes eventually formed the backdrop for his books. The son of a mathematics teacher and a church organist, Brown was raised on a prep school campus where he developed a fascination with the paradoxical interplay between science and religion. In 2005, Brown was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine, whose editors credited him with “keeping the publishing industry afloat renewed interest in Leonardo da Vinci and early Christian history spiking tourism to Paris and Rome a growing membership in secret societies the ire of Cardinals in Rome eight books denying the claims of the novel and seven guides to read along with it a flood of historical thrillers and a major motion picture franchise.” Brown’s novels are published in 56 languages around the world with over 200 million copies in print. Dan Brown is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels, including The Da Vinci Code, which has become one of the best selling novels of all time as well as the subject of intellectual debate among readers and scholars.
