Previously, BBC adapted the novel for television, with radio and game adaptations also emerging.

Notably, he also co-wrote 1992sThe Positronic Man, which was adapted into the 1999 filmBicentennial Manstarring Robin Williams.

Ridley is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Rohner Walerstein; Coker by CAA and Literate Management/Production.

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