Brett Ratner's Rat Entertainment has optioned the film rights to The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea by Charles Robert Jenkins. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Ratner may also direct the project, Ross Katz (Taking Chance) is writing the screenplay and John Cheng, head of feature development for Rat, will be the executive producer.
"The story is heartbreakingly sad, yet funny and romantic all at the same time," said Cheng. "It has so many of the elements you look for in a great film."
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DreamWorks has released a teaser trailer for the movie I Am Number Four, directed by D.J. Caruso from an adaptation of the YA sci-fi novel by James Frey and Jobie Hughes (under the pseudonym Pittacus Lore). "The primary takeaway? Boys, here is your Twilight saga," New York magazine observed.