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Ebury signs tie-in to ‘landmark’ Netflix series ‘Life on Our Planet’
Witness Books, an imprint of Ebury, will publish Life on Our Planet, by Dr Tom Fletcher and the team at Silverback Films, this autumn – a tie-in to the upcoming eight-part Netflix series of the same name.
Albert DePetrillo, publishing director, acquired world rights from Julian Alexander at The Soho Agency and Netflix. Witness will publish in November 2023, and rights have already been sold in mainland China, France, Italy, Japan, Germany and the Netherlands, with more deals pending. Fletcher is a vertebrate palaeontology consultant and the main scientific consultant for Silverback on the series.
The publisher says: “Today there are 20 million species on our planet. Yet what we see is just a snapshot in time: 99% of Earth’s inhabitants are lost to our deep past. The story of what happened to these lineages — their rise and their fall — is truly remarkable.
“Accompanying a landmark Netflix series, Life on Our Planet tells the story of life’s epic battle to survive on planet Earth, showing in a new light what’s been lost to us, and how life’s future is now being written by us. From ancient ocean worlds and plant life’s first forays onto land, to the rise and fall of the dinosaurs and the devastation of the last Ice Age, this is a sweeping history through five extinctions and, with the arrival of humans, the beginning of a sixth... With over 200 photos and images from the groundbreaking series, Life on Our Planet is an unforgettable journey to our ancient past, containing powerful lessons to learn about our future.”
