Pair nab rights to V.C. Andrews library

'Family Storms'Dan Angel ("Door-to-doorInch) in the Hatchery has bought rights for the V.C. Andrews library and teamed with Jane Startz ("Ella Enchanted") to develop and convey movies, TV series and telepics based on Andrews' works.Angel and Startz introduced the partnership Friday. You'll find presently 70 Andrews books, launched in 1979 with "Flowers inside the Attic," with worldwide sales more than 106 million copies in 95 nations in 26 languages in tales mixing facets of Medieval horror and family secrets. Andrew Neiderman, who's composed 44 books under their very own title, remains the freelance worker of Andrews' books since her dying in 1986.The newest addition is "Family Storms" which is follow-up "Cloudburst," released inside the fall. Paranormal love story "To The Darkness" will probably be launched in March and "The Forbidden Sister will probably be launched inside the fall 2012, then it's follow-up "Roxy's Story.""V.C. Andrews can be a significant cultural icon and contains been throughout the final 3 decades,In . Startz mentioned. "Her collected works certainly are a banking center of genres -- romance, medieval, paranormal -- with highly original and sometimes outr tales that have enormous multigenerational and multicultural appeal." Angel's credits include "The Haunting Hour," "Serta Versus." and "Gifted Hands." Startz produced "The Indian inside the Cupboard," "The Mighty" and "Tuck Everlasting."Simon & Schuster Uk, extended-term entrepreneurs of V.C. Andrews, mentioned in the statement, "We are delighted that Virginia Andrews will uncover a brand new audience through this exciting collaboration while using Hatchery and Jane Startz Prods., by using this global brand to elevated levels."In 2007, the Hatchery and Jaffe/Braunstein introduced expects to produce a miniseries for Lifetime using the Andrews' "The Landry" nevertheless the project didn't meet up. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com