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Paramount, Indian Paintbrush Acquire French Thriller Novel ‘Syndrome E’
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures and Indian Paintbrush are closing a deal to acquire the rights to the international bestselling novel Syndrome E. Originally published in France, the Franck Thilliez novel is the first in a series, and it will be released in the U.S. by Viking this summer. The publisher bought U.S. rights at Frankfurt, and it’s the first book by the author to be translated into English.
The protagonist is a beleaguered detective named Lucie Hennebelle, who discovers that his friend comes down with a case of spontaneous blindness after watching an extremely rare and spectacularly violent film from the 1950s. The cop discovers that the film has been embedded with subliminal images that those who come in contact with it end up dead. The detective teams with a Paris cop who has been trying to figure out the film’s connection to five men murdered and left in the woods. Together they get to the bottom of what has to be the most disturbing and powerful film ever made. It has global and scientific implications, and its maker might well be the personification of evil and the origins of violence. The novel has been compared to Se7en and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. ICM made the deal.
Film Rites’ Steve Zaillian & Garrett Basch are producing with Steven Rales & Mark Roybal. High-end writers and filmmakers are beginning to circle the project. It’s the second project that Film Rites is producing for Paramount and Indian Paintbrush. They have Chris Terrio (who scripted the Ben Affleck-directed Argo) writing A Murder Foretold, a fact-based drama based on the David Grann article in The New Yorker about a series of high-level assassinations in Guatemala, and one in particular, a wealthy businessman who’d recently watch his wife get gunned down. That particular killing reverberated all the way to the top of the government and created a national outcry to root out government corruption.
By MIKE FLEMING ( www.deadline.com )
[ Les droits d’adaptation du roman Français Le Syndrome E écrit par Franck Thilliez viennent d’être achetés par la Paramount.
La Paramount veut son Millenium. Les studios en collaboration avec Indian Paintbrush terminent les négociations pour obtenir les droits d’adaptation américain du thriller français écrit par Franck Thilliez, Le Syndrome E, premier tome d’une série de romans.
Sorti en 2010 chez Fleuve Noire, le roman est souvent décrit comme étant dans la veine de Se7en, ou un Millenium à la française. Pour le moment, aucun scénariste ni réalisateur n’ont été engagé sur le projet mais la rumeur prétend que de grands noms sont intéressés. A noter que le roman ne sera publié que cet été aux Etats-Unis. ]
A Novel
Syndrome E : 16 Aug 2012 | Viking Adult
A Novel
Franck Thilliez – Author
Mark Polizzotti – Translator
Already a runaway bestseller in France, Syndrome E tells the story 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.
With this taut U.S. debut, Thilliez explores the origins of violence through cutting-edge and popular science in a breakneck thriller rich with shocking plot twists and profound questions about the nature of humanity.
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