Thursday, June 02, 2011

Harry Potter Producer/Director Options Thriller The Cypress House by Michael Koryta

The Cypress House by Michael Koryta

Producer Chris Columbus (Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, several "Harry Potter" movies) has acquired the film rights to the 2011 thriller The Cypress House by crime novelist Michael Koryta.

In the book, Arlen Wagner has seen it in men before — a trace of smoke in their eyes that promises imminent death. He is never wrong.

When Arlen awakens on a train one hot Florida night and sees death's telltale sign in the eyes of his fellow passengers, he tries to warn them. Only 19-year-old Paul Brickhill believes him, and the two abandon the train, hoping to escape certain death. They continue south, but soon are stranded at the Cypress House — an isolated Gulf Coast boarding house run by the beautiful Rebecca Cady — directly in the path of an approaching hurricane.

The storm isn't the only approaching danger, though. A much deadlier force controls the county and everyone living in it, and Arlen wants out — fast. But Paul refuses to abandon Rebecca to face the threats alone, even though Arlen's eerie gift warns that if they stay too long they may never leave.

Koryta, author of the Lincoln Perry mystery series, has a new stand-alone coming out this month, The Ridge.

(Source: Deadline|New York.)

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