Uri Singer has optioned the rights to Don Delillo's novel White Noise and writer/director Michael Almereyda (Experimenter, Marjorie Prime, Tesla) is set to adapt the screenplay. Indiewire noted that Delillo "is among our most acclaimed living novelists, but also one of our least frequently adapted. Alex Ross Perry acquired the rights to The Names last year and Benoît Jacquot premiered his adaptation of The Body Artist at the Venice Film Festival in September, but to date none of DeLillo's best-known works--namely White Noise, Libra and Underworld--have made their way to the silver screen."
"I think the book combines a sense of humor with a sense of menace. The book has great dialogue and features many cinematic episodes,” said Singer. "It radiates an appreciation of American life but also elements of satire. There's a central love story between a husband and wife, but with an awareness of the secrets and fears that they keep from one another."
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Scott Rudin and Eli Bush, who are producing the big screen adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's novel Annihilation for Paramount, have signed on to produce a film version of the author's next book, Borne, which the studio acquired the rights to recently, Variety reported. The novel will be published next spring by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Annihilation, starring Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, and Oscar Isaac, "is one of the more highly anticipated pics of 2017, as it marks writer-director Alex Garland's follow-up to his critical hit Ex Machina," Variety wrote.