Jonathan Livingston Seagull (film) his beliefs. Eventually, Jonathan himself ends up becoming a mentor for other seagulls who are suffering the same fates in their own flocks as he once did. Director Hall Bartlett first read the book "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" in a San Fernando Valley barbershop when he impulsively decided to call the publisher, Macmillan, and then author Richard Bach, to buy the film rights. Bartlett suggested that the story needed to be told simply, without animation or actors, and acquired the property for $100,000 and fifty percent of the profits. He granted Bach final approval rights on the film and all advertising
Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull the book "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"". Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull Eric Monkman (born c. 1988) and Bobby Seagull are academics and television personalities based in the United Kingdom. They came to fame as a result of appearances on the 2016–17 season of the BBC Two quiz show "University Challenge". Monkman was captain of the Wolfson College, Cambridge team, and Seagull was captain of the Emmanuel College, Cambridge team. They met in the semi-final where Wolfson won, but were beaten by Balliol College, Oxford in the final. They presented the BBC Radio 4 programme "Monkman and Seagull’s Polymathic Adventure", and wrote