'Smallville' Showrunners in Foretells Direct Youthful-Adult Feature 'Homelanders' (Exclusive)

Miles Chapman continues to be hired to pen Summit's adaptation of Homelanders, a youthful-adult book series by Andrew Klavan. Screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, best referred to as showrunners of TV's Smallville, will work with Chapman in developing Homelanders and, while no deals are created, have been in foretells make their directorial debut onto it. PHOTOS: New Generation of Superheroes Lorenzo Di Bonaventura is creating while Di Bonaventura Pictures' David Ready is professional creating. The books, referred to because the Bourne Identity entered with Disturbia, focuses on a higher school student who awakens to locate themself associated with a chair, being unsure of where he's or the way a whole year has transpired. After he handles to flee, he embarks with an adventure to discover why terrorists and also the government bodies want him. Summit and also the filmmakers are placing a sci-fi element towards the story. STORY: 'Smallville' Actor Tom Welling Moves From CAA to WME (Exclusive) Two Homelanders books happen to be released - The Homelanders: The Final Factor I Recall and also the Homelanders: The Lengthy Way Home. The books are the initial youthful adult books by Klavan, who is renowned for writing thrillers, a couple of that have been modified: True Crime, directed by Clint Eastwood, and Don't Say a thing, a Michael Douglas vehicle co-starring Brittany Murphy. Summit, home from the Twilight blockbusters, is searching at Homelanders as the second possible teen franchise. For Chapman, the offer reunites him using the studio that acquired his spec The Tomb, which presently has Antoine Fuqua mounted on direct and Bruce Willis mounted on star. The scribe, who first labored with di Bonaventura on the ABC pilot game titles Priceless, just rewrote consecutive action projects Four 50s and Slipknot, both for Relativity. STORY: 'Smallville's' Justin Hartley and 'Lost's' Shaun Fahey Guest Star on 'Chuck' Gough and Millar, who're showrunning ABC's fall Charlie's Angels TV series and also have done movies for example Spider-Guy 2 and Shanghai Noon, will also be assisting to develop an adaptation of comic Existence 2., now known as Upgrade. They aren't mounted on diect Upgrade. Chapman is repped by Paradigm and Gotham Group.Gough and Millar are repped by CAA. Email: Borys.Package@thr.com Twitter: @Borys_Package