Press Release: Deals Done
Life's Too Short
Posted at 4:43PM Wednesday 17 Jun 2009
Sam Harrison at Aurum has acquired UK rights from Andrew Lownie to actor Warwick Davis's inspirational autobiography Life's Too Short for publication next spring. Davis, who has an extremely rare genetic condition called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita and is three-feet-six inches tall, is probably best known for his roles as the title character in the classic adventure movie Willow (1988, nominated for two Oscars) and as Wicket the Ewok in Return of the Jedi (1981) but he has also acted alongside David Bowie in Labyrinth (1985), played three characters in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (1999), including several scenes as Yoda, and played the lead role in the six Leprechaun horror films . Warwick has played Professor Flitwick in all seven of the Harry Potter films and he has a great deal of screen time in the final two films, The Half Blood Prince due for release this summer and The Deathly Hallows to be shown in two parts in 2010 and 2011. The book will recount his experiences working with actors from Harrison Ford to Val Kilmer and from a pre-Friends Jennifer Anniston to BAFTA-winning Ricky Gervais in Extras as well as some of the world's most famous directors, including Oscar-winning Ron Howard along with legend and long-time friend George Lucas. It is also the moving story of how a boy born with a very obvious disability has turned that to his advantage but how that disability has subsequently affected his life as a parent "I'm incredibly excited that Warwick has chosen to publish with Aurum," says Sam Harrison. "His story is without doubt unique. On the one hand it's a charming, off-camera peek at some of the biggest films of the last twenty-five years, but on the other it's a deeply personal account of how his condition has offered him the most amazing career, whilst posing difficult and sometimes heartbreaking challenges."
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