![]() ![]() Washington and Roberts starred together in The Pelican Brief and have long wanted to work together again. ![]() It is also a re-team for Roberts with both Washington and Esmail. Word spread quickly that the worth of this deal will rival the one made by Apple for the Antoine Fuqua-Will Smith runaway slave drama Emancipation, which landed in the $120 million range, counting backends. This becomes yet another in a spate of precedent-setting deal, including salaries and backends for the stars and filmmaker. ![]() The book portion was a 7-figure deal and the outline for a budget was part of the negotiation, sources said. The novel will be published this fall by the HarperCollins publishing imprint Ecco. I heard that it came down to Netflix and Apple and MGM but that there were 10 offers on the project with studios and streamers bidding for movies and limited series. EXCLUSIVE: After another vigorous bidding battle for a star-cast package, Netflix prevailed and won world rights for Julia Roberts starring with Denzel Washington and Mr Robot‘s Sam Esmail directing Leave The World Behind, a feature adaptation of an upcoming novel by Rumaan Alam. ![]()
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