FORMER Bucks Free Press journalist Terry Pratchett has sold the film rights to his best-selling Bromeliad trilogy to a Hollywood production company for $1 million.
Dreamworks, co-owned by Steven Spielberg, has acquired the film and television rights to Pratchett's best-selling novels Truckers, Diggers and Wings.
Truckers will be the first to be turned into a computer-animated feature.
Andrew Adamson, a leading Dreamworks director, said: "Terry Pratchett is an incredibly clever and imaginative writer, and I was drawn into the world of The Bromeliad.
"It's a story that lends itself extremely well to being a film, and I wanted to be a part of its telling."
Mr Pratchett, a former pupil of Holtspur County Combined School, has sold more than 23 million books worldwide.
He said he chose Dreamworks because "I liked Chicken Run' and Galaxy Quest,' and you've got to be impressed when a guy phones up from Hollywood one night and turns up for lunch in Wiltshire, England, the very next day."
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