Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Chocky
9/25/08 - DreamWorks has acquired the dramatic rights to the science fiction novel Chocky from Pollinger Ltd., the U.K. agency that handles the literary estate of the late author John Wyndham, and Steven Spielberg is said to be keen to make the adaptation his next directing project, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Chocky tells the story of a boy who has a mysterious imaginary friend with whom he frequently argues. As the boy's father gets increasingly suspicious, it becomes clear that an alien entity has taken up residence in the boy's consciousness.  Chocky is a 1968 novel written by Wyndham (officially John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris), a British science fiction writer who wrote the well-known The Day of the Triffids.

AlienAlmanac.com 2008