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Book-To-Film: Weekly Adaptation Sales & Options (3.9.10)

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SAVAGES

Genre: Drama Thriller

Author: Don Winslow

Screenwriters: Don Winslow and Oliver Stone

Logline: Two pals from Laguna Beach share the same girlfriend and thriving business growing and distributing high-quality marijuana. When they resist being muscled by a Mexican drug cartel, the girl is kidnapped and the ransom is every cent they’ve made for the last five years. The guys agree to pay while hatching an alternate plan to get her back, get revenge, and then get lost.

PET SEMATARY

(Remake)

Genre: Horror

Author: Stephen King

Screenwriter: Matthew Greenberg

Logline: A family trades city life for county life in Maine, then discovers that they have moved near a pet cemetery that rests on an ancient burial ground. When their toddler son is killed in an auto accident, the father takes the boy’s body to the cemetery, where it is resurrected in demon form.

INCARCERON

Genre: Fantasy

Author: Catherine Fisher

Screenwriter: not announced

Logline: A young boy lives in a prison that is a complete society; outside the prison, the world is stuck in the 17^th Century and run by computers. When the boy comes into contact with the warden’s daughter they find a key that can change everything.

SERENA

Genre: Drama

Author: Ron Rash

Screenwriter: Chris Kyle

Logline: Set in the rugged mountains of 1929 North Carolina, a man named George Pembleton and his new bride, Serena, create a timber empire. When Serena learns she cannot bear a child, she sets out to murder the son her husband fathered illegitimately.

NIGHT OF THE HOWLING DOGS

Genre: Drama

Author: Graham Salisbury

Screenwriter: not announced

Logline: In 1972 while camping in the wilderness, Boy Scout Troop 77 of Hilo, Hawaii, experiences the earthquake in Halape and the subsequent tsunami.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER

Genre: Historical Horror

Author: Seth Grahame-Smith

Screenwriter: Seth Grahame-Smith

Logline: President Abraham Lincoln secretly battles the undead as an ax-throwing, highly trained vampire killer.

Book-To-Film: Weekly Adaptation Sales & Options (3.2.10)

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THE TRAVELER

Genre: Action Adventure

Author: John Twelve Hawks

Screenwriter: Alex Tse

Logline: Set in a U.S. society run by a secret organization seeking to control the population via constant observation, an almost extinct group of people called Travelers (who can project their spirits into other dimensions), and their protectors, the Harlequins, band together in rebellion.

THE UNDOMESTIC GODDESS

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Author: Sophie Kinsella

Screenwriter: Aline Brosh McKenna

Logline: A workaholic female attorney, who believes she wrecked her chances of being named partner at her London firm, has a meltdown and ends up in the English countryside, After stopping at a house to ask directions, she is mistaken as a candidate for a maid position and takes a housekeeping job.

PEONY IN LOVE

Genre: Drama

Author: Lisa See

Screenwriter: Erin Cressida Wilson

Logline: Set in 17^th Century China, a young woman decides to starve herself to death after falling in love with a man she fears she’ll never be allowed to wed. She develops her plan after seeing the Chinese opera The Peony Pavillion, which tells a similar tale.

ETIQUETTE

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Author: Emily Post

Screenwriter: None announced

Logline: A prissy Emily Post manners coach turns a rough-around-the-edges guy into a proper gentleman.

Book-To-Film: Weekly Adaptation Sales & Options (2.23.10)

TUNNELS

Genre: Children’s Fantasy

Author: Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams

Screenwriters: Simon Sandquist and Joel Bergvall

Logline: A 14-year-old boy, who is driven by a fascination of the buried past, is drawn into a subterranean world dominated by a sinister, vicious race called the Styx, after his archaeologist father suddenly goes missing.

TREASURE ISLAND

(Remake)

Genre: Action Adventure

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Screenwriter: Niall Johnson

Logline: The classic story set in the 19^th century revolves around pirates, buried gold, and the relationship between Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins.

THE GARDEN OF BETRAYAL

Genre: Drama Thriller

Author: Lee Vance

Screenwriter: Not Announced

Logline: Centers on an international conspiracy and the struggle to control global oil and energy.

Book-To-Film: Weekly Adaptation Sales & Options (2.16.10)

THE TERMINAL SPY: A TRUE STORY OF ESPIONAGE, BETRAYAL, AND MURDER

Genre: Mystery Drama

Author: Alan Cowell

Screenwriters: David Scarpa and Mike Newell

Logline: In 2006, ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko is poisoned by polonium-210. As he lies dying in a London hospital, he accuses Russian President Vladimir Putin of being responsible for his murder. This mysterious and perplexing crime of the post-Col War era triggers an international investigation and diplomatic tension between Russian and London officials.

HEIST SOCIETY

Genre: Thriller

Author: Ally Carter

Screenwriter: Shauna Cross

Logline: A young woman who hails from an extended family of cat burglars and master thieves leaves her illicit life behind, but when her father becomes the prime suspect behind a mobster’s missing art collection, she assembles a crew to track down the art and steal it back.

SHIVER

Genre: Supernatural Romance

Author: Maggie Stiefvater

Screenwriter: Nick Pustay

Logline: A bittersweet romance takes place between a teen girl and a boy who turns into a wolf each winter. As the temperature drops, the race to keep him human begins.

DUNE

(Remake)

Genre: Science Fiction

author: Frank Herbert

Screenwriter: Chase Palmer

Logline: Set on the remote desert planet of Arrakis, the one planet that produces the interstellar’s sole source of the spice Melange, an empire wide power struggle begins over the control of the spice.

ANIMAL RESCUE

(From the book Boston Noir)

Genre: Mystery Drama

Author: Dennis Lehane

Screenwriter: Dennis Lehane

Logline: A bartender finds a pit bull that is believed to have committed a murder.

THE THREE MUSKETEERS

(Remake)

Genre: Action Adventure

Author: Alexander Dumas

Screenwriter: Peter Straughan

Logline: D’Artagnan joins forces with three veteran musketeers to stop the evil plans of the villainous Cardinal Richelieu.

TURN OF THE CENTURY

Genre: Satire

Author: Kurt Anderson

Screenwriters: Peter Bogdanovich and Parish Rahbar

Logline: Set in February 2000, a Manhattan power couple with three children tries to manage their trouble marriage.

Book-To-Film: Weekly Adaptation Sales & Options (2.9.10)

THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE

Genre: Drama

Author: David Wroblewski

Screenwriter: William Broyles, Jr.

Logline: A teenage mute, who is caught in a long-standing intense family conflict, flees into the Wisconsin woods with three of the extraordinary dogs that his family raises and trains.

THE WOMAN IN BLACK

Genre: Thriller

Author: Susan Hill

Screenwriter: Jane Goldman

Logline: A young lawyer is ordered to travel to a remote village to take care of a deceased client’s papers. The young man glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black during his stay, leading to the uncovering of a tragic secret.

THE LOST SYMBOL

Genre: Thriller

Author: Dan Brown

Screenwriter: Steven Knight

Logline: Robert Langdon is summoned to Washington, DC where he begins decoding the symbols of the Freemasons. The third in the Da Vinci Code series.

THE BIG SHORT: INSIDE THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE

Genre: Drama

Author: Michael Lewis

Screenwriter: Not Announced

Logline: Chronicles the recent free fall of the American economy.

Book-To-Film: Weekly Adaptation Sales & Options (2.2.10)

THE FARM

From the book My Empire of Dirt: How One Man Turned His Big-City Backyard Into a Farm

Genre: Drama

Author: Manny Howard

Screenwriter: Donal Lardner Ward

Logline: A Brooklyn husband and father of two battles a career downturn and finds a renewed sense of purpose when transforming his backyard into a working, urban farm

DARK LIFE

Genre: Adventure

Author: Kat Falls

Screenwriter: Not Announced

Logline: Set in a near-future world in which rising ocean levels and natural catastrophes have led some people to homestead on the ocean floor, an underwater teenage boy and a surface girl join forces to uncover a government conspiracy.

FIRE

Genre: Spy Thriller

Author: Brian Michael Bendis

Screenwriter: Not Announced

Logline: A college student is recruited by the CIA, only to find that he has been trained for a program that creates expendable agents.

EAT, SLEEP, POOP: A COMMON SENSE GUIDE TO YOUR BABY’S FIRST YEAR

Genre: Comedy

Author: Dr. Scott W. Cohen

Screenwriter: Matt Allen and Caleb Wilson

Logline: A humorous look at raising your newborn.

Book-To-Film: Weekly Adaptation Sales & Options (1.26.10)

THE AVERY CATES PROJECT
(From the book The Electric Church)

Genre: Science Fiction

Author: Jeff Somers

Screenwriter: Trevor Sands

Logline: Set in a near future where Earth is run by a federation of nations and governed by council, a bodyguard/assassin is forced by the police to kill the founder of a church that transforms people into pliant robots.

Book-To-Film: Weekly Adaptation Sales & Options (1.19.10)

TOO COOL TO BE FORGOTTEN

Genre: Sci-Fi Comedy Drama

Author: Alex Robinson

Screenwriter: not announced

Logline: A 40-something father of two undergoes hypnosis to quite smoking only to be transported back to 1985 and his youth as a gangly, awkward teenager.

THE CHANCELLOR MANUSCRIPT

Genre: Political Thriller

Author: Robert Ludlum

Screenwriter: Peter O’Brien

Logline: Writer Peter Chancellor delivers a novel about Washington D.C. powerbrokers who are blackmailed into altering U.S. policies. When the real-life operatives get a hold of the manuscript they think Chancellor has uncovered their actual scheme and try to hunt the author down.

WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Author: Heidi Murkoff

Screenwriter: Heather Hach

Logline: Follows the relationships of seven couples as they experience the thrills, terrors, surprises, aches, and pains of preparing for parenthood

Book-To-Film: Weekly Adaptation Sales & Options (1.12.10)

THE LAST TRAIN FROM HIROSHIMA: THE SURVIVORS LOOK BACK

Genre: Drama

Author: Charles Pellegrino

Screenwriter: None announced

Logline: Over two days, Japanese civilians and America pilots experience the atomic explosions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki firsthand.

Book To Film: Weekly Adaptation Sales & Options (12.31.09)

NIGHT AND FOG (Comic Book)

Genre: Horror

Authors: Alex Lung & Matthew Bradford

Screenwriter: not announced

Logline: Set during World War II, a Frankenstein-like infectious mist unleashed on a military base transforms its victims into preternatural creatures of the night.

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