From Twilight to Homelanders

 

With the coming end to the highly lucrative Twilight Saga, Summit Entertainment has prepared the launch of a new franchise, also based on books targeted at young adults. So, who is to inherit the sway over box office after vampaires and werewolves leave the scene?

Charlie West, the protagonist of Andrew Klavan's Homelanders series, was an ordinary teenager with good grades and interest in karate until he suddenly wakes up to find himself strapped in a chair in a torture room. After successful escape, West comes to know that he was a captive for a year already and the "good guys" behind his mysterious imprisonment are now planning to assassinate one of government officials.

Sounds quite familar, doesn't it? The series are described as "The Bourne Identity crossed with Disturbia", thus expect another action-packed thriller about teens and conspiracy plots, full of promise to be the next big hit. 

The screen adaptation of the first book titled The Last Thing I Remember will be a directorial debut for Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, the showrunners of the endless TV show Smallville. Gough and Millar are going to develop the film series along with Lorenzo di Bonaventura, the man behind the Transformers trilogy, as the producer and Miles Chapman, who penned The Tomb for Antoine Fuqua and Bruce Willis (also being produced by Summit), as the screenwriter.

Homelanders is considered as one of the most acknowledged works in the bibliography of Andrew Klavan, famous for his mysterious and psychological thrillers about "tough men". He won the Edgar Award two times and is also known as the writer of two other books made into films -  True Crime with Clint Eastwood and Don't Say A Word with Michael Douglas. 

Aside from The Last Thing I Remember, the series also include The Long Way Home, The Truth of the Matter and The Final Hour, all of which are option by Summit in the case of the first adaptation's success. 

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