Warner Bros. Options Film Rights to A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Warner Bros. has optioned the film rights to Deborah Harness's debut novel, A Discovery of Witches.

A top-of-the-charts bestseller earlier this year, it's a tale about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together.

Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is the only creature who can break its spell.

A Discovery of Witches is the first in the "All Souls" trilogy of novels by Harkness.

(Source: Deadline|New York)