Cbs Plans ‘Celestine’ Miniseries

Tue., March 4, 1997

The Hollywood Reporter

CBS has acquired the TV rights to the New Age novel “The Celestine Prophecy,” the top-selling American book of the past two years, and will develop it into a four-hour miniseries.

The book’s author, James Redfield, described as a writer and lecturer “about the spiritual dimension of human consciousness,” will develop and produce the project along with veteran cable-movie producer Beverly Camhe.

“The Celestine Prophecy” was self-published by Redfield in 1993. A year later it was bought by Warner Books, and it has been on the New York Times best-seller list for 149 weeks. Nearly 7 million hardcover copies are in print around the world.

CBS is said to have paid $500,000 to option the book.

Written as a parable, “The Celestine Prophesy” tells the story of one person’s spiritual search in a Peruvian rain forest for a long-lost manuscript containing insights into the nature of human existence.

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