Warner Bros. Options Film Rights to Brad Thor's Scot Harvath Thrillers

Yesterday we learned that Warner Bros. had pre-emptively acquired the film rights to Brad Thor's soon to be published thriller The Athena Project. Today, Variety is reporting that the studio actually acquired the rights to all of Brad Thor's novels, which, to date, have featured ex-Navy SEAL Scot Harvath. The first book in the series is The Lions of Lucerne, originally published in 2002.

Considering The Lions of Lucerne as an "origins" story, the studio said, "We think that this could become something like the Jason Bourne franchise."

In this first book of the series, the snow-covered slopes of Utah have just become a nightmarish reality: thirty Secret Service agents have been viciously executed and the vacationing president of the United States is kidnapped by one of the most lethal terrorist organizations in the Middle East -- the dreaded Fatah.

But one man, surviving agent and ex-Navy SEAL Scot Harvath, doesn't believe the Fatah is responsible for the attack. Driven by his professional code of duty and honor -- and a solemn vow to avenge his fallen comrades -- Scot creates his own rules to get some answers. But his search for the truth raises the blood pressure of his superiors ... and casts his own life in mortal jeopardy.