WB Aquires "Fourth Realm Trilogy"

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Warner Bros Acquires ‘Fourth Realm’ Trilogy

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has optioned film rights to the Fourth Realm Trilogy, a bestselling series by dystopian novelist John Twelve Hawks. The studio will start right away on The Traveler, the first book in the series. The novels are set in the near future, and reinterpret history as a battle between the forces of control. There is the Tabula, which manages society through constant observation, and the Travelers, a nearly extinct group of people who can project their spirit into other dimensions. The series continued with the novels The Dark River and The Golden City. They’ve been published in 25 languages and sold more than 1.5 million books. “I’m so pleased that the trilogy is at Warner Bros, a studio whose history of otherworldly storytelling is so indelible and whose vision for the Fourth Realm Trilogy is so inspiring,” the author said in a statement.
The author is himself an interesting story. His books are bestsellers but he has maintained such a lower profile that his life and identity are mysteries, including his real name. How does he communicate? By email or by untraceable satellite calls for which he uses a voice scrambler. He’s known to his fans as J12H and JX11H. He’s done few interviews and prefers to live off the grid. His deal was made by UTA and Joe Regal of Regal Literary.

 

[Octoberist]

Kids, dystopian future is the new vampire.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=88356

Source: Deadline , Random House
March 23, 2012

Warner Bros. has plans to develop a new sci-fi/fantasy series with The Traveler, Deadline reports. The first book in the literary "Fourth Realm" trilogy, The Traveler is written by John Twelve Hawks and is officially described as follows:

In London, Maya, a young woman trained to fight by her powerful father, uses the latest technology to elude detection when walking past the thousands of surveillance cameras that watch the city. In New York, a secret shadow organization uses a victim’s own GPS to hunt him down and kill him. In Los Angeles, Gabriel, a motorcycle messenger with a haunted past, takes pains to live "off the grid" — free of credit cards and government IDs. Welcome to the world of The Traveler — a world frighteningly like our own. In this compelling novel, Maya fights to save Gabriel, the only man who can stand against the forces that attempt to monitor and control society. From the back streets of Prague to the skyscrapers of Manhattan, The Traveler portrays an epic struggle between tyranny and freedom. Not since 1984 have readers witnessed a Big Brother so terrifying in its implications and in a story that so closely reflects our lives.

The Traveler was followed by The Dark River and The Golden City and, depending on the response to the first film, all three books could be brought to the big screen.

A bit on the book actually being adapted.

 

[The Guard]

I thought this said Fourth World for a minute.

But they already have that, don't they?

Bah.