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Gideon's Sword
Release Date: TBA
Production Phase: Pitch
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Who's Making It: Douglas Preston (Creator - Writer), Lincoln Child (Creator - Writer), Michael Bay (Producer),
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Paramount Pictures has optioned the screen rights to the upcoming Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child novel Gideon's Sword. Michael Bay (Transformers) is producing the movie through his Bay Films production entity.
Details on the novel/movie's storyline are being kept under wraps but it's the first story in what's being promoted as a new franchise following a character named Gideon Crew. The movie rights were rumored to be sold for at least one million dollars.
Preston and Child have written 13 books together including The Relic which was turned into a 1997 film.
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