Fox 2000 has won
a bidding war for the film rights’ to Justin Cronin’s The Passage. The plan is for Ridley Scott to direct.

Fox 2000 has paid seven figures to win a bidding war for the film rights to “The Passage,” a partial manuscript intended as a trilogy for Ridley Scott to produce, via his Scott Free banner, and possibly direct.
Ballantine Books picked up the book in a heated auction during the Fourth of July holiday, forking out $3.75 million for North American rights. Jordan Ainsley was the name on the manuscript, but it turned out to be a pseudonym for Justin Cronin, a literary novelist whose book of stories “Mary and O’Neil” won the Pen/Hemingway Award as well as the Stephen Crane Prize for

debut fiction.



“Passage,” a postapocalyptic vampire story set in 2016, is a departure for Cronin. The dark tale revolves acircular a U.S. government project gone awry that turns a group of experimental subjects — condemned inmates plucked from death row — into highly infectious vampires. Meanwhile, an orphan named Amy discovers that she has unusual powers, seemingly related to the crisis that quickly overtakes civilized society.
Ballantine plans to publish the book in summer 2009.

There’s nothing we like better than a good postapocalyptic vampire tale, so this is excellent news.



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