Sky 1 has launched the latest attempt to secure a Game of Thrones-style fantasy series.

The channel has announced plans to adapt Jasper Fforde's novel The Last Dragonslayer into a feature-length TV drama.

The two-hour special is being written by Tom Edge, the man behind Channel 4 comedy Scrotal Recall (still an amazing title), and he also wrote for E4's The Midnight Beast and BBC Three's Threesome.

The Last Dragonslayer is set in a world where magic exists in a weakened form, and has been replaced with modern technology - for instance magic carpets are used to deliver pizzas. Better than drones.

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The story focuses on 15-year-old Jennifer Strange, who runs an employment agency for magicians and finds out that the last dragon is being hunted.

Part of the Chronicles of Kazam series, Fforde spent 20 years in the movie business before launching his successful novels.

The new one-off is expected to go into production later in 2016.

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