Script Sales For - 10/27/1999
October 27th, 1999
Hollywood script deals
Miramax Films has optioned the feature film and publishing
ights to Thomas Wheeler's fantasy-adventure manuscript ``The Arcanum.''
The unfinished novel will be published under the Talk/Miramax
Books imprint, which took out an option for Wheeler's novel.
The book tells the story of a 1920s group of occult investigators
comprised of some of the most famous personalities of that time:
Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini, H.P. Lovecraft and Marie Laveau.
Together, they battle mysterious evils that descend on New York
City, including a serial killer of angels.
Wheeler will write the screenplay first before completing
the novel.
Wheeler credits: ``The Mission,'' a high-tech military
thriller for Columbia Pictures. He has also adapted the
sci-fi novel ``Meg'' for Disney; sold ``Black Hole,'' a
treatment, to New Line Cinema; and sold the spec script
``The Prometheus Project'' to Fox.
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In a bidding frenzy DreamWorks bought screen rights to
the Marc Levy novel ``If Only It Were True'' for $2 million,
with Steven Spielberg producing and maybe directing
DreamWorks is expected to hire scribe Ron Bass (``My Best
Friend's Wedding'') to adapt.
Storyline: A San Francisco man takes an apartment and soon realizes
he's got a roommate: the gorgeous spirit of the previous occupant.
It's the phantom of a woman who's in a coma after a car accident, and
the spirit's existence is tied to the condition of her body. When he
finds out that she's due to be pulled off life support, he and the
spirit kidnap her body. After a miraculous recovery she awakens, with no
memory of him, and he must begin the courtship anew.
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