The Amphibian Swimming to the Big Screen

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=47898

Source: The Hollywood Reporter
August 12, 2008


Stone Village Pictures is developing one of the most popular Russian properties in history, acquiring film and publishing rights to Alexander Belyaev's novel "The Amphibian."

The Hollywood Reporter says Stone Village head Scott Steindorff will produce the romantic adventure drama with Jenia Kokotuha, who brought the project to the company.

"Amphibian" follows an American surgeon living in the Amazon who gives his son shark gills to survive a fatal respiratory disease. The young man's underwater life is complicated when he saves a local fisherman's daughter from a shark attack and romantic feelings surface between them.

Steindorff is hiring a screenwriter to adapt the book and plans to publish a new English translation. Comic book and graphic novel adaptations also are planned through the Stone Village imprint, handled by Intellectual Property Group's Joel Gotler.

This sounds like a great story, it'll be interesting to see what type of talent gets attached to this.

 

[The Lizard]

Interesting, but a lot of Americans are going to hear about the gills and think "Waterworld".

 

[tzarinna]

I didn't, I'm a little slow. I was thinking along the lines of Dr. Moreau.

 

[Rac]

He. I just saw the old 60's adaptation of the book and kept thinking what kinda version Hollywood would make of the book this day. I guess I'm about to find out. t: