Disney Live Action is developing a feature adaptation of The Dallergut Dream Department Store, the fantasy bestseller from Korean author Miye Lee, with Patrick Ness (A Monster Calls) aboard to adapt the screenplay.
The first installment in a trilogy, The Dallergut Dream Department Store follows Penny, who has just landed her dream job — selling dreams to customers at the legendary Dallergut Dream Department Store. But when strange, dangerous things begin to happen to the sleeping clientele, Penny must uncover the mystery before the nightmare spreads beyond the store.
A #1 bestseller in Korea, Lee’s novel has sold more than 2 million copies in 20+ territories. EVP of Production Jessica Virtue is overseeing the feature take for Disney Live Action.
Himself an author of books for adults, young adults and children, Ness is no stranger to screen adaptations, having adapted two of his own works, A Monster Calls and Chaos Walking, for film. Focus Features released J. A. Bayona’s 2016 take on A Monster Calls, starring Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, and more, where Ness was exec producer in addition to screenwriter. Meanwhile, Lionsgate tapped Doug Liman to direct an adaptation of his Chaos Walking trilogy, starring Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland; Ness and Christopher Ford were the writers on the film.
Published in over 40 languages, Ness has won every major prize in children’s fiction, including the Carnegie Medal twice, as well as winning the Olivier Award for the stage adaptation of A Monster Calls. He’s otherwise best known for creating and writing spinoff Class, the eight-part Doctor Who spin-off for BBC. He is repped by CAA, UK agent Michelle Kass of Michelle Kass Associates, and attorney Howard Abramson of Behr Abramson Levy Johnson.
