- THE PLANET THIEVES
Warner Bros. has tentative plans to adapt Dan Krokos'
forthcoming young adult novel The Planet Thieves into a feature film, Deadline
reports. The book, scheduled to be published in 2013 by Tor/Starscape, is
officially described as follows:
When the crew of the SS Egypt gets massacred by an alien
race, Mason Stark, a thirteen-year-old cadet in the Earth Space Command, must
lead his fellow cadets in a daring surprise attack to retake the ship, and
recover a stolen technology that could spell the end of planet Earth.
"I wanted to write a pure adventure story," Krokos
writes on his blog, "Something fun. What I came up with is slightly darker
than what I was going for, but it’s still a work in progress. I got the idea
when I imagined the bridge of a space ship manned only by cadets. Kids who knew
what they were doing but lacked the experience of battle. I asked myself why
that would happen, and went from there."
Bendersprink and Heyday Films will produce the adaptation
with Pouya Shahbazian.
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