Brad Caleb Kane to Adapt The Historian to Film June 15, 2007
Brad Caleb Kane has been signed
to adapt Elizabeth Kostova's bestselling novel The Historian for the silver screen. From The Hollywood Reporter:
Child actor-turned-scribe Brad Caleb Kane will sink his teeth into "The Historian," Sony's adaptation of a bestselling tome about modern-day vampires.
The studio ponied up seven figures for Elizabeth Kostova's novel, her first, shortly before it hit bookstores two years ago, and Red Wagon's Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher have been searching for the right scribe ever since. The key, according to Wick, was finding one able to modernize the Dracula myth in a believable way.
The book revolves around a young woman's search for her father, who is on the hunt for the grave of Vlad the Impaler, the feudal lord who inspired Bram Stoker's "Dracula."
"One of the things we've been looking for is someone who could not only capture the visceral, sexy part of the story, but who also has the talent to make it credible," said Wick.
This won't be an easy adaptation, that's for sure. The leisurely pace that works so well in the novel could easily become boring on film. On the other hand, this is the kind of novel that could easily be ruined in the screenplay. Still, we wish him well.
