IP is King

Why we should be thinking 'ideas' not 'novels'

You may not have heard of Moss magazine. In fact, unless you’re part of the literary scene in Seattle, you probably haven’t. It’s a tiny journal published-once-a-year for and by the arts community on the rainy northwest coast. But Moss hit the headlines when one of its short stories entitled ‘Sinkhole’  was optioned by director/producer Jordan Peele after a bidding war with M Knight Shylamalan. Remarkable in itself, but more jaw-dropping was that the story was really short – like, four pages short.

It’s a measure of the new reality in Hollywood where IP is king.