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UPDATE, 6:03 PM: Legendary has confirmed Deadline’s scoop that it bought the Marcus Sakey novel Brilliance. In addition, it has attached Oz The Great And Powerful’s Joe Roth and Palak Patel to be the film’s producers. Alex Hedlund will oversee it for Legendary.
PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE, 5:06 PM: Legendary Pictures is in negotiations to acquire Brilliance, a book by Marcus Sakey that some are likening to X-Men. The author, who wrote The Blade Itself and Good People, here focuses on an alternate present-day scenario where 1% of children are born savants with special powers. Called “brilliants,” they are capable of exceptional things. A federal agent, who uses his skills to become a master hunter of terrorists, pursues a savant terrorist who intends to provoke civil war. The book will be published in July by Thomas & Mercer/Amazon Books. Earlier today, Fox, the home studio for X-Men, seemed to be in the driver’s seat, making an offer with a ticking clock, but that expired with no deal. CAA and Trident Media rep the author.
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How original? Kids with superpowers. Yawn.
Who said anything about kids? There is a reason this went quickly. I’m an assistant and I read it this weekend. Legendary is lucky to have this.
Don’t you mean brilliant?
Go Palak!!! Nice!!
It’s true we are called “creative executives” and we are utterly brilliant. We are capable of amazing things. We can ruin a great story or script faster than a mere mortal could even read it. We can wreck anything anywhere if we put our mutant minds to it.
Will Thomas Tull try and kick Joe Roth off this film like the producers on Godzilla?
legendary pictures should pick up something original like the epic fantasy novel BLOODSPILLER
Hmmmm. Why do I feel like I’ve seen this before? A variation on “Bladerunner?” Another alternative reality? Dystopian? Enough already of these sci-fi fantasies with 150 million in production costs, including tons of CGI, instead of three 50 million dollar films that adults (25 and older) can relate to!
I have read this outstanding book. Dismissing it as being about kids, likening it to Bladerunner or X-Men are showing a flippant, superficial response to the article, not to the book–a thoughtful study of people’s fear of the ‘different’, man’s willingness to embrace the power and profit of war and other themes. Read, and enjoy, the book, then give an informed opinion.