The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Richard Matheson's 1989 paranormal thriller Earthbound has been optioned by Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, who have a first-look deal with DreamWorks Studios.
Matheson is a prolific novelist, with many of his novels and short stories having been adapted for film (notably I Am Legend, which has been filmed at least three times, Stir of Echoes, What Dreams May Come, and just last year, The Box), but has also written extensively for television, including adapting his own short story for the 1971 made-for-television film Duel, which was one of Steven Spielberg's earliest directing jobs. In his book On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King credits Matheson as being "the author who influenced me most as a writer."
Matheson also used the pen name Logan Swanson for some of his early work, including the first, albeit heavily edited, edition of Earthbound, published by Playboy Press in 1982.
About Earthbound: David and Ellen Cooper came to the lonely beachside cottage in hopes of rekindling their troubled marriage. Yet they are not alone on their second honeymoon. Marianna, a beautiful and enigmatic stranger, comes to visit David whenever Ellen is away.
Who is Marianna, and where has she come from?
Even as he succumbs to her seductive charms, David realizes that Marianna is far more than a threat to his marriage, for her secrets lie deep in the past and beyond the grave. And her unholy desires endanger the life and soul of everyone she touches.
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