Fox has acquired film rights to The Dark Side, the Anthony O’Neill novel that created buzz at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Garrett Basch & Steve Zaillian’s Film Rites will produce.
The novel is in the spirit of Philip K. Dick’s style, or Avatar or Blade Runner. It’s an elevated sci-fi noir story set in a future where the moon is used as a penal colony. It houses criminals, psychopaths and curious tourists alike. When an anarchic android begins wreaking havoc on the area and bodies start turning up, an exiled detective arrives to investigate. The novel was just acquired by Simon & Schuster worldwide for publication in the spring.
20th Century Fox has preemptively bought the film rights to hot Frankfurt Book Fair title The Dark Side by Anthony O'Neill for Steve Zaillian and Garrett Basch's Film Rites to produce.
Simon & Schuster just acquired worldwide rights to the novel and plans to publish the book in Spring 2015.
The book received positive buzz from the Frankfurt Book Fair and was acquired by Simon and Shuster, to be published in spring 2015. Garrett Basch and Steve Zaillian, who co-wrote Ridley Scott's upcoming Exodus: Gods & Kings, are set to produce the film.
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