James Cameron has optioned the screen rights to Joe Abercrombie's latest novel, The Devils. Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment plans to produce a movie adaptation with Cameron and Abercrombie co-writing the scrip. Cameron has not committed to direct, as he is busy with a tiny little project called Avatar for the foreseeable.
The Devils, published just last month to become his first #1 Sunday Times Bestseller (as well as hitting #5 on the New York Times Bestseller List), is the first in a new trilogy from Abercrombie, set in an alternate medieval history version of our world where the Child Pope conspires to put the long-lost Princess of Troy back on her throne with the help of a squad of malcontents, including a vampire, a necromancer, a werewolf, an elf, a cursed undead warrior and an expert thief. Obviously, complications ensue.
Joe has had his work optioned for film before, with Deadpool director Tim Miller and Dune / Silo star Rebecca Ferguson attached to an adaptation of his novel Best Served Cold two years ago. So far, that project has not moved forwards.
Cameron is hard at work on his Avatar sequence of films, with the third movie, Avatar: Fire and Ash, due for release on 19 December this year. Avatar 4 and 5 are in development, with around a third of Avatar 4 already in the can for a provisional 2029 release.
1 comment:
I struggled with Devils, not my favourite piece todate?
Maybe it's a change of world?
The pieces were right, it just never really got a good cadence to it 3/5.
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