"There was a time when fan fiction meant furtive scribbles uploaded to shadowy corners of the internet, in which Mr Darcy was recast as a moody vampire flatmate, Captain Kirk discovered his inner romantic, or Gandalf finally got around to opening an artisanal shop in the Shire. It was an underground hobby that could never trouble Tinseltown's accountants."
"And yet here we are in 2025, with the news in the Hollywood Reporter that Legendary Pictures has just paid at least $3m (2.2m) an unprecedented amount for the screen rights to a forthcoming novel called Alchemised that began life as an unauthorised and kinky Harry Potter spin-off."
"SenLinYu's original book, titled Manacled, inhabited a strange sub-niche of Potterverse named Dramione in which Hermione Granger finds herself regularly involved in unlikely and transgressive romantic encounters with Draco Malfoy. Now stripped of all reference to Hogwarts, butterbeer and Nimbus 2000s, and with renamed characters, Alchemised will hit shelves and online bookstores later this month as the dark fantasy tale of a young woman with memory problems who finds herself at the mercy of a powerful and cruel necromancer."
Fan fiction has moved from hidden internet corners to a source of high-value intellectual property for studios and publishers. Legendary Pictures paid at least $3m for Alchemised, a novel that began as an unauthorised Harry Potter spin-off renamed from Manacled. The original occupied a Dramione sub-niche pairing Hermione and Draco; the published Alchemised removes explicit Potter references and rebrands characters into a dark fantasy about a memory-impaired woman controlled by a necromancer. Other fanfic-to-media examples include The Love Hypothesis, derived from Reylo fanfic, and industry deals with platforms such as Wattpad, AO3 and Tumblr.
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