Director Neil Jordan ("The Crying Game," "A Killing on Carnival Row") is adapting, and plans to helm, the Joe Hill novel "Heart-Shaped Box" as a major motion picture. Warner Bros. Pictures will distribute this spooker and Akiva Goldsman will produce. This is Hill's first novel as he follows the footsteps of his famous author father, [...]

Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Journalist) Famously finicky author Stephen King has given the big-screen adaptation of his best-seller "Cell" his blessing. Director Tim Roth told SciFi Wire recently that he'd met with King and received the author's endorsement for the project. "My first question when I adapted it was can I deviate from the [...]

No, I'm not talking about the satellite radio station, but a screenplay that writer Marc Librescu is currently undertaking. Based on the 1944 novel of the same name from author Olaf Stapledon ("Last and First Men," "Star Maker" and "Old John"), "Sirius" is the story of a genetically engineered canine that exhibits the development of [...]

Variety is reporting that Universal Pictures has acquired the Nick Redfern novel "Three Men Seeking Monsters: Six Weeks in Pursuit of Werewolves, Lake Monster, Giant Cats, Ghostly Devil Dogs, and Ape-Men" as a vehicle for "Napoleon Dynamite" actor Jon Heder. Redfern's novel tells the story of three guys who, like those famous storm chasers, have [...]

The popular kids fantasy trilogy "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke will be brought to the screen by producer Barry Mendel (The Sixth Sense & Munich) and New Line. The film adaptation will star Brendan Fraser as a father who has the uncanny ability to take characters from a book and bring them to life while reading [...]

Keeping in the vein of the Stephen King story about "The Mist," another Stephen, who writes hit screenplays wants to trap people also. Grudge franchise screenwriter Stephen Susco is putting down his laptop and moving to the director's chair with "White," a big screen film based on a novella by Tim Lebbons. The film premise [...]

Dimension Films and director Frank Darabont have opted Stephen King's novella "The Mist" and want to turn it into a big screen horror feature. Darabont loves working King's stuff from page to screen and has turned other King works into big hit features such as "The Green Mile" with Tom Hanks and "The Shawshank Redemption" [...]

Submitted by: Kyle Nin (SoSF Staff Reporter) Angelina Jolie, no stranger to controversy and manipulation of the media, has signed on to star in a big screen adaptation of the most ambitious and controversial novel ever written. "Atlas Shrugged," written by Russian-born American philosopher and author Ayn Rand, is considered the second most influential book [...]

Submitted by: Summer Brooks (SoSF Staff Reporter) Peter Jackson, the wizard behind "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and the remake of "King Kong," has decided to keep WETA jumping through hoops for the next six years by reportedly buying up the rights to Naomi Novik's "Temeraire." "Temeraire" is a fantasy series of novels that [...]