Next month's upcoming sci-fi book about why there are no more technological advancements is already advancing to the big screen.
Wasting no time on getting the movie rights, 20th Century Fox has already gained the ability to adapt the upcoming sci-fi novel Influx. As the writer of Daemon, Daniel Suarez is an increasingly popular name with book readers and this premise sounds ready made for a movie adaptation.
First reported by The Hollywood Reporter, the news comes well ahead of Influx’s scheduled debut on February 20, 2014. Published by Dutton (part of Penguin Group), the book follows the story of Jon Grady, a physicist who invents the ability to deflect gravity. Yet instead of acclaim and awards, he faces the problem of what apparently many inventors have when silenced over the last 50 years from a culture that went from dreaming about flying to the moon to downloading moon physics for their latest iPhone game. There’s a reason there have been very few substantial technological advancements over the last several decades, and Grady will find out why
No director is yet attached, but Fox’s new leadership is being quick to higher big name directors to adapt darker literary material, such as Tim Burton’s upcoming take on Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and David Fincher’s take on Gone Girl with Ben Affleck, both of which are due out later this year.