Book to movie

Solomon Kane, based on Robert E. Howard’s pulp novels, has rounded out it’s cast: Pete Postlethwaite, Max Von Sydow, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Alice Krige, and Mackenzie Crook. Michael J. Bassett is directing.

Hayden Christensen to star in, and Joseph Kahn to direct, movie version of William Gibson's Neuromancer.

Salma Hayek has been cast as bearded lady, Madame Truska, in Cirque du Freak, which is based off the children’s book series by Darren Shan. It also has John C. Reilly (who plays a vampire) and will be directed by Paul Weitz.

Matt Damon, Amy Green, Greg Kinnear, and director Paul Greengrass will be working on Green Zone, a movie based off of the book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone, by Rajiv Chandrasekaran.

Imagine Entertainment and Universal are in negotiations with E.E. Smith’s estate for the film rights to the Lensman novels.

Director Kimberly Peirce is trying to sell a draft of Childhood's End, based off of Arthur C. Clarke's SF novel, to Universal.

United Artists has optioned the film rights to The Ranger's Apprentice, John Flanagan's fantasy series (so far seven books) about an orphan boy who becomes an apprentice ranger in the kingdom of Araluen.