Scott Steindorff ("The Lincoln Lawyer") and his Scott Pictures label have scored the film rights to Jessica Khoury's upcoming young adult novel "Origin" says Heat Vision. The story follows Pia, a young woman created to be immortal by a scientist somewhere in the Amazon jungle. On her 17th birthday, she escapes her compound, meets a village boy … [Read more...]
Wes Ball Set To Adapt His “Ruin”
July 24, 2012 by
Fox is in negotiations to pre-emptively pick up the movie rights to Wes Ball's 8-minute animated short "Ruin" with plans to turn it into a live-action movie says Heat Vision. The story is set in a post-apocalyptic North American city overgrown with foliage. Ball has done graphic work for HBO and Blu-ray and DVD featurettes. Ball is attached to … [Read more...]
Producers Vying To Adapt “Fifty Shades”
June 15, 2012 by
There are casting searches, there are director searches, but rarely it seems is there a high profile search for a producer. In the case of the film adaptation of E.L. James' "Fifty Shades of Grey" though, there have been numerous producers under consideration with a decision expected shortly says Variety. On the list are Michael De Luca; Ron … [Read more...]
Julia Leigh To Adapt Her Novel “Disquiet”
May 16, 2012 by
Screen Australia are sinking $ 400,000 into sixteen Australian features currently in development reports Screen Daily "The Hunter" author Julia Leigh is set to adapt one of her own novels for the big screen - the atmospheric gothic thriller "Disquiet" which follows a family reunion at a French chateau, one haunted by secrets. The film would mark … [Read more...]
Warner & Goldsman Adapt “Lucid” Comic
March 12, 2012 by
Warner Bros. Pictures has acquired film rights to Michael McMillian's pop-fantasy comic book mini-series "Lucid" reports Variety. The story follows Agent Matthew Dee who uses his skills as a covert spy and Combat Mage to ensure America’s freedom from the grip of evil. Throw in elements of Arthurian legend and occult mythology. Both … [Read more...]
Fox To Adapt “Mountain Between Us”
February 4, 2012 by
Gerardo Naranjo ("Miss Bala") is in negotiations to direct the survival romance story "The Mountain Between Us" for 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment reports Deadline. An adaptation of the Charles Martin novel, the story follows a female writer heading off to get married and a doctor returning home from a medical conference. After their … [Read more...]
Summit To Adapt “Area 52” Comic
September 28, 2011 by
Summit Entertainment has acquired the film rights to Brian Haberlin's comic "Area 52" reports Deadline. The story follows a top-secret Antarcitca warehouse the U.S. government uses to store hideous creatures and mystical weapons. When an aggressive new alien is accidentally hatched, the group of misfits hired to watch over the warehouse must … [Read more...]
McQueen, Pitt, Ejiofor Adapt “12 Years a Slave”
August 16, 2011 by
"Hunger" director Steve McQueen is teaming with Brad Pitt and Chiwetel Ejiofor in an adaptation of Solomon Northup's 1853 autobiography "Twelve Years a Slave" says The Hollywood Reporter. Northup was a married and educated free black man living in New York when two men approached him with a job offer in Washington. When he showed up in D.C., he … [Read more...]
“Deathly Hallows” Duo Adapt “The Stand”
August 11, 2011 by
David Yates and Steve Kloves, the director and script writer of the last three "Harry Potter" films, look to be re-teaming on the film adaptation of Stephen King's "The Stand" at Warner Bros. and Vertigo Pictures says Hitfix The novel, first published in 1978 and revised in 1990, is a story of good vs. evil after a virus wipes out most of the … [Read more...]
