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By snagging Incarceron, a young-adult fantasy series, Fox is hoping to continue its success in the fantasy genre. Variety reports:
Fox 2000 has won a bidding war for the film rights to Brit author Catherine Fisher’s young-adult tome “Incarceron,” with an eye to spinning the dystopian fantasy into a franchise. . . .
“Incarceron” is a priority for Fox 2000 and Seed, with the project going out to directors and writers to adapt. At least two other studios were vying for the film rights.
Published just three weeks ago in the U.S., Fisher’s book immediately won a slot on the New York Times children’s bestsellers list. Tome was published in the U.K. in 2007.
“Incarceron” tells the story of a young boy who lives in a prison that is a complete society; outside the prison, the world is stuck in the 17th century and run by computers. The boy comes into contact with the warden’s daughter, who lives in her own sort of jail, and they find a key that can change everything.
FirstShowing.net notes:
If all goes well, we’ll also get to see an adaptation of the next book in the series, Sapphique, which won’t be out until next January (after all, Incarceron was only published three weeks ago). But of course the first film still needs screenwriters, so this project is just getting warmed up.