It's also been suggested she's turned down 4 million for the film rights.
That's the easy way, and would not be worth the film rights.
He thought it had a lot of humor and started working on getting the film rights.
Edward Small bought film rights to the book for $50,000.
Fisher, 17, has already been paid £50,000 for the film rights to her story.
Over the next 25 years there were several more options taken on film rights, but none of them went to production.
The film rights had been sold by his agent soon after the book was published in 1949.
The film rights were sold for $500,000 plus 25% of the profits.
The film rights to the novel were licensed in the 1990s.
Its success finally gave her financial security (she reportedly sold the film rights for $500,000).