AN AWARD-WINNING, THOUGHT PROVOKING NOVEL SET IN A STUNNINGLY REIMAGINED AMERICA.
Sky Full of Elephants is a speculative novel set in a world where every white person in American walks into the nearest body of water and drowns. It is a story where grief, power, and rebirth collide, and those who remain must rebuild identity, purpose, and belonging in the silence of aftermath.
Book Trailer: 2024
The film/tv rights have been sold to Gypsy Productions
IP DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
FORMAT: FEATURE FILM
STATUS: In Development
A FEATURE FILM THAT BECOMES CULTURAL MEMORY
The format strategy for Sky Full of Elephants centers on its translation from novel to feature film. The story’s scale, emotional depth, and global resonance demand a cinematic experience, one that captures both the intimacy of individual survival and the vastness of societal rebirth. The film format allows the story’s visual and emotional contrasts, silence and chaos, grief and beauty, to fully immerse the audience in a world rebuilding itself from loss.
Our goal is to preserve the novel’s poetic language while expanding its visual language, transforming metaphor into image and emotion into atmosphere. Through this adaptation, Sky Full of Elephants becomes more than a film; it becomes an event, a meditation on power, race, and renewal designed to move audiences and define a new cultural mythology.
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INTERESTED IN COLLABORATING ON SKY FULL OF ELEPHANTS?
Sky Full of Elephants is an owned property of UnOthr, available for select partnership across film, television, publishing, and live experience. We collaborate with producers, studios, and cultural partners who understand that story is infrastructure, and that the most enduring work is built to move across formats while staying rooted in the vision that created it. For film and television inquiries, literary and rights conversations, or speaking and appearances, reach out below.