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Posted: Thurs., Dec. 1, 2005, 9:00pm PT

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WB harvests book 'Kropp'

Studio gets 'Extraordinary' rights

By DAVE MCNARY, PAMELA MCCLINTOCK

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Warner Bros. Pictures has bought the film rights to Rick Yancey's young-adult novel "The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp" and set it up with Akiva Goldsman's Weed Road Pictures.

Scribe David Iserson ("Saturday Night Live") is attached to adapt.

Story concerns an awkward 15-year-old who gets plunged into an Arthurian adventure when his uncle convinces him to steal an ancient sword that turns out be Excalibur.

Producers are Goldsman and 3 Arts Entertainment's Erwin Stoff.

Weed Road's Dan Rosenfelt identified the project, which was brought to Warners by Weed Road prexy Kerry Foster.

Warner Bros. Pictures' Kevin McCormick will oversee for the studio. David Miner will oversee for 3 Arts.

Yancey's book, published by Bloomsbury USA Children's Books, hit the stands in early October.

Goldsman's Weed Road ("Mr. & Mrs. Smith," "Constantine") is based on the Warner Bros. lot.