Back to today’s briefing

Story perspectives

Sony Pays Near-$1 Million for Sibling Duo’s Epic Script

8/11/2026

50 7

Summary

Story summary

Sony Pictures paid siblings Kieran O’Dea and Brennan O’Dea a near-seven-figure sum for “The Ballad of the Ember Knight.”
CAA and Kaplan Perrone flipped the 190-page Hundred Years’ War script to Sony, where Brittany Morrissey and Peter Kang accepted it without producers.
The writers rejected a TV adaptation, refused to cut the script to 112 pages, and, as sons of astronomers from Baltimore and Rochester, made the sale their first.

1 of 1

Story summary

Sony Pictures paid siblings Kieran O’Dea and Brennan O’Dea a near-seven-figure sum for “The Ballad of the Ember Knight.”
CAA and Kaplan Perrone flipped the 190-page Hundred Years’ War script to Sony, where Brittany Morrissey and Peter Kang accepted it without producers.
The writers rejected a TV adaptation, refused to cut the script to 112 pages, and, as sons of astronomers from Baltimore and Rochester, made the sale their first.