Whitley Strieber, whose book
The Coming
Global Superstorm (written with Art Bell) was made into the
hit film The Day After Tomorrow, has sold his new
novel "2012" to Warner Brothers. His current novel,
The Grays, is being made into a film by
Sony studios.
In Daily Variety, Pamela McClintock reports that Michael Bay,
who just finished directing "Transformers" will team up with
producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, who will write the
script of 2012, which will be published by Tor Books in
September. No release date has been set for the movie.
McClintock describes Whitley's as-yet-unpublished book as
the story of "an academic researcher who opens a portal into
a parallel universe and makes contact with his double in order
to stop an apocalypse foreseen by the ancient Mayans."
Further hints about the book come from Robert Orci, who
says, "We've been looking for a way to have the kinds of
thrillers that we are interested in that still take into
account the latest theories and discoveries in Egyptology
and quantum mechanics, which Mr. Strieber is so
knowledgeable about." Andrew Kurtzmann adds this
fascinating
statement, "The idea of a man teaming up with himself to
solve a cosmic mystery was way too good for us to pass up."
Whitley Strieber will be reading from 2012 in a series of
Dreamland specials leading up to the publication of the novel
in September, and will be publishing a document called 2012
Encodings on Unknowncountry.com in June. This will reveal
the complex
structure of coded information that went into
the creation of the novel.
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