Two of the most far-famed novels of the retiring few years are receive moving-picture show trade , greatly increase our probability of seeing some lineament amusement on the big screen a few class from now .
Hammer Filmsis making a movie of Cherie Priest ’s steampunk novel Boneshaker , with Cross Creek Pictures and Exclusive Media Group producing . The screenplay is being write by John Hilary Shepherd ( Nurse Jackie ) . Like the Bible , the movie will take place an alternating 1880s Seattle , which has become a walled urban center overproduction with “ rotters , ” or living dead .
Meanwhile , the Clarke Award - gain novel Zoo City by Lauren Beukes has been optioned by South African producer Helena Spring , after what SFX describesas “ a furious outside bidding war . ” The novel takes place in a Johannesburg ghetto inhabited by the underclass and their animal companion . say Spring :
I ’m charmed to have secured the film and television right for Zoo City . It is a ground - give , witching novel begging for a life on the great filmdom . Lauren ’s storytelling is virtuoso – edgy and futuristic , unique yet worldwide . It is high in amusement value yet emotionally charged , a ambition project for any producer .
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