He'll adapt a new science fiction novel
His latest writing/directing effort, Mortdecai might not have worked out that well for David Koepp but the veteran scriptwriter is still much in demand. Sony has hired him to adapt Sylvain Neuvel’s novel The Themis Files.
Neuvel’s sci-fi tome posits a world where aliens have buried the parts of a giant humanoid relic throughout the world. Years later, one piece is discovered when a young girl named Rose Franklin lands in a giant hand after stumbling into a hole in South Dakota. The government launches an investigation to see if there are any military or technological secrets lurking within the pieces, but, finding nothing, soon loses interest. Until, that is, the now grown Rose, a physicist working with the University of Chicago, spearheads an attempt to re-assemble the giant figure, sparking public panic and greed and the shadow of war, even as the research team try to figure out what the humanoid could represent.
Thus far, Koepp has just been engaged to write the first draft of the script for the studio, which will now make its way through development. Koepp has most recently worked on scripts for films such as The Huntsman and Ron Howard’s latest Dan Brown adaptation, Inferno.
from Empire News
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