TV, where Rosenberg ( The Twilight Saga, Dexter) and her Tall Girls Production banner is now under a rich overall deal. The drama is based on the novels Rules of Magic and Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman. The two sisters, Franny and Jet, will become the revered, and sometimes feared, aunts in Practical Magic, while their beloved brother, Vincent, will leave an unexpected legacy. In their aspirational journey toward self-discovery and self-acceptance, they will contend with grief, war, bigotry and dark magic, not to mention a centuries-old curse designed to keep them away from love. But the tumultuous times unearth the extraordinary discovery that they are, in fact, descendants of a bloodline of witches. It revolves around three troubled siblings - Franny, Jet and Vincent Owens - who wrestle with “abnormalities” that have kept them isolated. From Rosenberg, the project is described as an epic, generational family drama that is set in 1960s New York City. ( From the publisher.Rules of Magic has been picked up with a sizable pilot production commitment that comes complete with an additional 10-script order and mandate to open a writers room. Thrilling and exquisite, real and fantastical, The Rules of Magic is a story about the power of love reminding us that the only remedy for being human is to be true to yourself.

The two beautiful sisters will grow up to be the revered, and sometimes feared, aunts in Practical Magic, while Vincent, their beloved brother, will leave an unexpected legacy. The Owens children cannot escape love even if they try, just as they cannot escape the pains of the human heart. Back in New York City each begins a risky journey as they try to escape the family curse. But when her children visit their Aunt Isabelle, in the small Massachusetts town where the Owens family has been blamed for everything that has ever gone wrong, they uncover family secrets and begin to understand the truth of who they are.

And most importantly, never, ever, fall in love. Difficult Franny, with skin as pale as milk and blood red hair, shy and beautiful Jet, who can read other people’s thoughts, and charismatic Vincent, who began looking for trouble on the day he could walk.įrom the start Susanna sets down rules for her children: No walking in the moonlight, no red shoes, no wearing black, no cats, no crows, no candles, no books about magic. Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her three children are dangerously unique. From beloved author Alice Hoffman comes the spellbinding prequel to her bestseller, Practical Magic.įor the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man.

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