Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

A Discovery of Witches

1/9/12 - Playwright David Auburn has been tapped to pen A Discovery of Witches, Warner Bros.’s adaptation of the supernatural fantasy novel by history professor Deborah Harkness, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Denise Di Novi and Alison Greenspan are producing.  Published by Viking Adult in February 2011, the book centered on a scholarly woman who is a direct descendant of the first woman executed at the Salem Witch Trials that accidentally discovers a long-lost manuscript that may contain the secret of immortality. She is thrust into a position where she and a 1,500 year old vampire must stop an inter-species war between witches and vampires.

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