Friday, March 30, 2012

Paramount Options Film Rights to French Thriller Syndrome E by Franck Thilliez

Le Syndrome E by Franck Thilliez

Paramount has acquired the film rights to the French thriller Syndrome E by Franck Thilliez. This first in a series was originally published in late 2010 in France, and has its US debut in August — the first of the crime novelist's works to be translated into English.

The story is of beleaguered detective Lucie Hennebelle, whose old friend has developed a case of spontaneous blindness after watching an extremely rare — and violent — film from the 1950s. Embedded in the film are subliminal images so unspeakably heinous that Lucie realizes she must get to the bottom of it — especially when nearly everyone who comes into contact with the film starts turning up dead.

Enlisting the help of Inspector Franck Sharko — a brooding, broken analyst for the Paris police who is exploring the film's connection to five murdered men left in the woods — Lucie begins to strip away the layers of what is perhaps the most disturbing and powerful film ever made. Soon Sharko and Lucie find themselves mired in a darkness that spreads across politics, religion, science, and art while stretching from France to Canada, Egypt to Rwanda, and beyond. And just who is responsible for this darkness will blow readers minds, as Syndrome E forces them to consider: what if the earliest and most brilliant advances and discoveries of neuroscience were not used for good — but for evil.

(Related article: Deadline.)

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