Studiocanal and Neal Street Productions are developing a feature adaptation of Enid Blyton's Magic Faraway Tree with Paddington 2‘s Simon Farnaby attached to write. Neal Street’s Pippa Harris and Nicolas Brown will produce. English writer Blyton, who has been called the JK Rowling of her time, was born in 1897 and is one of the biggest selling children's authors in history with global sales of over 500M books.