Potter-maker Heyman to produce Alibaba's Warriors

Harry Potter producer David Heyman will produce Alibaba Pictures' film adaptation of the children's book series Warriors.

The collaboration came about when China's Alibaba Pictures acquired the rights to the British book series about four clans of wild cats. There are 36 books in the main series of the novels, written by a writing team under the name of Erin Hunter and published since 2003, which sold over 30 million copies worldwide.

The first live-action film with computer-generated characters will be an original story, which follows the path of main character Rusty, a pet cat raised by humans, and his joining a wild cat clan in the forest, Heyman told The Hollywood Reporter in Beijing.