Issac Asimov is heading back to the big screen.  Regency Pictures has optioned the screen rights to his 1955 novel, “The End of Eternity” reports Variety.
The novel  tells of a future where humanity is controlled by a ruling class called Eternity. Those who are in that class can manipulate time in order to alter history […]

First Brad Pitt tried Homer, the famous Greek poet, on for size in the film “Troy,” based on the the poet’s famous “The Iliad.” Now the actor is ready to tackle another masterpiece from the ancient writer. He will play Odysseus (a.k.a. Ulysses) in the Warner Bros. production of “The Odyssey,” according to […]

Jim McNally of “Seven Seas Jim” is producing a feature version of Jeff Carlson’s high concept thriller “Plague Year.”
The novel, which is currently the lead hard cover from European publisher Minotauro in Spain and has also seen major releases in North America and in Germany, is about a medical nanotechnology that breaks loose and devours […]

Robert Jordan’s popular fantasy series “The Wheel of Time” has been optioned by Universal Pictures in a seven-figure deal according to Variety.
The potential big-screen franchise will begin with an adaptation of the first novel of the series, “The Eye of the World.” 
Rick Selvage and Larry Mondragon will produce for Red Eagle Entertainment, which published graphic […]

Columbia Pictures will be producing a big screen version of the James Patterson YA novel “Maximum Ride.” Patterson will release the fifth novel in the series in 2009.
Story centers around six kids who have been genetically altered so that their DNA is now 98% human and 2% bird. They have been bred to fly […]

Any time you take a popular novel and adapt it to the big or small screen, certain changes will have to be made. The changes can be big or small, but one thing is always certain–changes can make long-time fans of the series nervous.
Author Terry Goodkind is aware of the nervousness his fans may […]

Over the weekend, the fourth installment in Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” saga hit bookstores to record-setting sales and crowds.  USA Today reports “Breaking Dawn,” the fourth and final chapter in the series sold 1.3 million copies on Saturday.
However, while the news on the sales front has been universally good, the fan reaction to the novel has […]

Warner Bros. Pictures will be adaptaing Isaac Asimov’s futuristic sci-fi epic “Foundation.” The feature film will be produced by Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne through Unique Features.
“Foundation” is based on Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy,” which centers on a society that has figured out how to predict the future based on a method called psychohistory and […]

Lucy M. Boston’s classic tales of “The Children of Green Knowe” will be getting big screen treatment beginning this fall.
Ealing Studios Intl. has signed on actor-turned- director Julian Fellowes (”Separate Lies”) to helm the project that will be titled “From Time to Time.” Fellowes also will adapt the screenplay from Boston’s works.
Like the series […]

Award winning director Spike Lee, using his own money and resources has acquire the rights to film “Time Traveler,” based on the prize winning book “Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality,” the memoirs of renowned theoretical physicist Ronald Mallett.
This one isn’t sci-fi, but is sci-fact. The film will […]

Actor Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix Trilogy) has been signed on by The Weinstein Company to both direct and star in Paulo Coelho’s fantastic novel titled “The Alchemist.” The announcement was made at this year’s Cannes over the weekend. It had been rumored for over two years that Fishburne would star, direct and write […]

The young adult novella horror series “Goosebumps” will be coming to a big screen near you sometime in the not-to-distant future. Created by R. L. Stine, the 60-plus stories have been attempted in the past to be made for films and failed to get off the ground, however, Columbia Pictures, Sony and Scholastic […]

Director Chris Wedge’s (”Ice Age”) next big project will be to helm the Brian Selznick 2007 bestselling children’s novel “The Invention of Hugo Cabret.” GK Films and Johnny Depp’s Infinitum, along with Warner Bros. will produce and distribute the live-action product.
John Logan, noted for penning Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator” will adapt the novel for […]

Sam Raimi may not have gotten the nod (at least not yet) to direct “The Hobbit,” but he is keeping very busy. Production for his new horror film “Drag Me To Hell,” for which his brother Ivan wrote the script, will be getting underway in about a week. Once that film is in […]

Material Entertainment has scarped up the film rights to John Drake’s novel “Flint & Silver.” The work is a prequel to the famous Robert Louis Stevenson tale “Treasure Island.” HarperCollins will publish the novel later in 2008.
“Flint & Silver” goes into the rivalry between Captain Flint and John Silver. Their hatred and […]

Amazon.com recently got into the movie making business and is ready to produce its first feature-length film based on the Keith Donahue fantasy novel titled “The Stolen Child.”
20th Century Fox will work with Amazon.com as the online retailer’s studio of choice for its first project, according to Variety. Fox will do all the heavy […]

Famed director Ron Howard is currently negotiating with the E.(Edward) E. “Doc” Smith estate to be given the filming rights for his iconic Lensman novels, according to SCI FI Wire. Joining Howard’s Imagine Entertainment in the deal is Universal Pictures. Smith wrote most of his seminal work in the late 1920’s and began […]

Charlize Theron and Viggo Mortensen will be starring together in “The Road,” a new John Hillcoat directed film that is being adapted from the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name.
The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic world about a man (Mortensen) who embarks on a horrendous cross-country road trip soon after a nuclear explosion. […]

Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist)
“Harry Potter” fans may get a treat when the final novel in the series comes to the big screen.
Weighing in at over 700 pages, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” left many fans wondering how the story could be condensed for the big-screen and still make […]

We talked about this possibility earlier and now MTV.com has confirmed that actor turned director Peter Berg (”The Kingdom”) will direct another version of Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel “Dune.”
The book already has come to the big screen once before in the 1984 adaptation and on the small screen in the 2000 SCI FI Channel […]

Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern novels have been optioned by Steve Hoban of the Oscar winning Canadian film production company Copperheart Entertainment
“I decided that Pern had to be done right and I wouldn’t let it go to someone unless I was certain that they were committed to excellence,” says Anne McCaffrey. “Steve brings not only […]

Director Tobe Hooper (”Masters of Horror,” “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”) will take the Stephen King novel “From a Buick 8″ and turn it into a major horror motion picture.
The story centers around the bizarre and obsessive relationship between a dead State Trooper’s son and the troopers mysterious vintage buick automobile.
The script will be adapted by […]

Vampires are still all business in Hollywood. The success of such films as the “Underworld” movies and now the new “30 Days of Night,” which is a bone-chilling look at the blood suckers, is proof that those frisky-neck hugging undead critters are still big box office.
With that in mind director Catherine Hardwicke (”Lords of […]

A man and his boy alone, walking on the desolated roads of a post-war, apocalyptic America looking for any sign of civilization.
That is the premise behind the critically acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize winning novel and Oprah Book Club fav from author Cormac McCarthy, in a move that is so unlike Hollywood, is being adapted for the […]

Source: Strieber’s Blog
Sony Pictures has chosen director Wolfgang Petersen to helm the film adaptation of Whitley Strieber’s novel “The Grays.”
Petersen known for such hit films as “In the Line of Fire” (with Clint Eastwood), “Outbreak” (with Dustin Hoffman), “The Perfect Storm” (starring George Clooney) and Brad Pitt’s “Troy” will begin filming this project within a […]

A new take on the various L. Frank Baum books from which “The Wizard of Oz” tale was born will be explored by Warner Bros., according to Variety. Baum created a total of 15 stories that surround the Oz legacy.
Village Roadshow Pictures will team up with Warner Bros. by taking an idea hatched by […]

Alan Moore’s “Watchmen” graphic novel, which is being turned into a film that has already caused quite a buzz in entertainment news circles, has acquired a majority of its cast. Speculation can now end as to whether or not Keanu Reeves, who was rumored to be the main actor being sought after, will be […]

To celebrate the centennial of the late author’s birth the Ian Fleming estate has given permission to British writer Sebastian Faulk to pen a new James Bond novel for bookshelves sometime in 2008. Fleming died in 1964, never fully realizing the power and scope his famous spy would hold over the world in his […]

To set the record straight:

1. “MEG: Hell’s Aquarium” will be marketed to publishers in September with a desired summer 2008 pub date. I am NOT holding it back.
2. MEG is all but dead at New Line.
3. Book order: “MEG: The TRENCH,” “MEG: Primal Waters,” then “MEG: Hell’s Aquarium” — (the last will be the best!).

For […]

Source: CNN Entertainment
LONDON, England (AP) — J.K. Rowling said she was sad, but relieved, to have completed the final “Harry Potter” book as she greeted fans at the European premiere of the latest movie in the young wizard saga.
J.K. Rowling hasn’t even told her family how the Harry Potter saga ends.
Hundreds of fans […]

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