Director Hired for Film Adaptation of Carpe Demon by Julie Kenner

It was back in May 2010 that we last reported on the film adaptation of Carpe Demon, the first mystery in the Kate Connor, Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom series by Julie Kenner.

Today we're learning that a screenplay has been written — by Dan Hagerman and Kevin Hagerman — and that Andre Øvredal (TrollHunter) will direct.

Carpe Demon introduces Kate Connor, a woman who put her career aside to raise kids in the suburbs. She hasn't, for instance, hunted a demon in ages.

That must be why she missed the one wandering through the pet food aisle of the San Diablo WalMart. Unfortunately, he managed to catch her attention an hour later — when he crashed into the Connor house, intent on killing her.

Now Kate has to clean up the mess in her kitchen, dispose of a dead demon, and pull together a dinner party that will get her husband elected to County Attorney — all without arousing her family's suspicion. Worse yet, it seems the dead demon didn't come alone …

It's time for Kate Connor to go back to work.

The fifth, and most recent, book in the series is Demon Ex Machina, which was published in 2009.

(Related article: Empire.)