Karga Seven acquires Simon Sebag Montefiore's The World: A Family History Of Humanity for Television

We are thrilled to announce that the rights for Simon Sebag Montefiore's compendium The World: A Family History have been acquired by Karga Seven!

Released exclusively to Deadline, Karga Seven - the Turkish-American producer backed by Peter Chernin‘s North Road Company - will adapt the sweeping historical book, which chronicles the world’s great dynasties across the entirety of human history, into a television series.

The World: A Family History was published in the UK by W&N in 2023 and by Knopf in the US, and was a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller.

Read the full press release here.