Paramount Buys Rights to VanderMeerΓÇÖs Novel
28 October 2016 Paramount Buys Rights to VanderMeers Novel
Borne the new novel by Jeff VanderMeer, the 2016-17 Trias Writer in Residence is slated for publication in May of 2017, but the film rights have already been purchased by Paramount Pictures.
On Tuesday, Oct. 18, Variety reported that Scott Rudinand Eli Bush, who are producing the big screen adaptation of VanderMeers [previous novel] Annihilation for Paramount, will produce the new film.
Borne explores a dystopic future through the eyes of a scavenger named Rachel, who in a ruined, nameless city. As Variety notes, the city is littered with discarded experiments from the Company a bio-tech firm now seemingly derelict. From one of her scavenging missions, Rachel brings home Borne, who is little more than a green lump, but exudes a strange charisma. And yet, little as she understands what or who Borne may be, she cannot give him up, even as Borne begins to grow and change in unexpected ways.
Read an excerpt of Borne from Entertainment Weekly (Oct. 25).
Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, the Nebula Award, and three-time winner of the World Fantasy Award, VanderMeer is the author of more than 20 books, including the New York Times-bestselling Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation,Authority, and Acceptance), released in 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The trilogy, which prompted theNew Yorkerto call the author the weird Thoreau, has been acquired by publishers in 28 other countries. The film adaptation of Annihilation, scheduled for a 2017 release, will mark the follow-up forEx Machinadirector Alex Garland and will star Natalie Portman, Gina Rodriguez andOscar Isaac.
VanderMeers nonfiction has appeared in theNew York Times, theGuardian, theWashington Post, the Atlantic.com, Vulture, Esquire.com, and the Los Angeles Times. He has taught at the Yale Writers Conference, lectured at MIT, Brown, and the Library of Congress, and serves as the co-director of Shared Worlds, a unique teen writing camp.
The Trias Residency for Writers is supported by The Peter Trias Endowed Fund for Poetry and Creative Writing. This valuable fund was established through a generous bequest fromPeter J. Trias 70, which enables HWS to supportactive, working artists whose presence contributes to intellectual environment of the Colleges and the town of Geneva.