How something like an unpublished (re: unfinished) novel gets sold to film companies is a mystery to me. Even more of a mystery than why film companies buy something that isn’t even finished, much less seen what the reaction to it is from the book buying public. I guess it’s all about taking risks, which makes you wish Hollywood suits would apply that same risk-taking attitude to, you know, making more original movies instead of just constantly remaking crap from the ’80s or Asia. But anyways, I’m going on a rant again. Ridley Scott has been hired by Fox 2000 to direct and produce “Child 44″, based on the soon-to-be published novel of the same name by Tom Rob Smith.
Says Variety:
Set in Stalinist Russia, storyline revolves around an officer in the secret police who is framed by a colleague for treason. On the run with his emotionally estranged wife, he stumbles upon a series of child killings and launches his own rogue investigation, even though it means risking his own capture.
Doesn’t exactly sound like something that someone should be buying nonchalantly, but hey, what do I know. Anyways, with Scott at the helm, it should be an interesting movie. Scott always manages to make even the most mundane films interesting to look at.
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