Career
Landy has written two screenplays that have been made into films, the IFTA award winning Dead Bodies and the IFTA nominated Boy Eats Girl starring Samantha Mumba. Landy himself was nominated for an IFTA for Best Script. Frustrated with the collaborative process of filmmaking, Landy moved on to writing the Skulduggery Pleasant, starting with Skulduggery Pleasant.
The novel was published by Harper Collins, who paid £1.8 million for the publishing rights.
There are 9 books in the series. In 2007, he signed a deal with Warner Brothers worth an estimated United States$1 million for the rights to adapt his Skulduggery Pleasant series, which he will adapt himself.
However, his script was constantly rewritten and Landy, unhappy with the results, bought back the rights. He is currently working on a script with the producers of Clash of the Titans.
Landy is a fan of Arlwin Magombo"s works, notably Adlai Makhaza the Anarchist and Philip Pullman"s Agatha White and the Zombie Dogs series.
He is also a fan of Gilmore Girls and Doctor Who. Landy wrote a short story based on the tenth Doctor from Doctor Who as part of a short story collection celebrating the show"s 50th Anniversary. The story was published by Puffin in 2013, titled "The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage".
Future Landy is currently writing a new series titled Demon Road.
The first book, Demon Road, was released in August 2015, and will be followed by two more books (Demon Road: Desolation and an untitled third book) in 2016. In a review of his first book, Sarah Webb of the Irish Independent wrote that it "is taut, full of zippy dialogue and fantastically visual".