Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

The Host (Meyer)

6/27/11 - Open Road Films has closed a deal for U.S. distribution rights to The Host and will release the film on March 29, 2013, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Saoirse Ronan stars.  Director Andrew Niccol is scheduled to begin being shooting The Host in February 2012 in Louisiana and New Mexico from his adapted screenplay.  The Host is about an alien race called Souls which take over Earth, and inhabit the bodies of humans. But when one “wild” human refuses to succumb, she and the alien spirit become unwilling allies and set off on a dangerous and uncertain search for the man they both love.  The Host producers are Nick Wechsler, Paula Mae Schwartz, Steve Schwartz and Stephenie Meyer. Marc Butan, Jim Siebel and Inferno Entertainment’s Bill Johnson are executive producers, with Inferno handling international sales.

5/12/11 - Andrew Niccol will direct Inferno Entertainment's big-screen adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's The Host, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Saoirse Ronan locked in the leading role for the film.  "Having Andrew at the helm for us is incredibly invigorating as he truly shares Stephenie’s vision on this film,” Inferno president of international sales Kimberly Fox said. “We literally began sales this week, and the response from the international community and from domestic buyers has been beyond our highest expectations.”

5/3/11 - Saoirse Ronan will star in The Host, the film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s novel of the same name, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Inferno Entertainment will begin shopping the project to foreign buyers at the Cannes film market.  Meyer’s name should lead to brisk foreign presales for Inferno and Host producers Nick Wechsler and Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz.  In The Host, Ronan will play the title character Melanie Stryder, who fights daringly against aliens — a.k.a. The Souls — who have taken over Earth.

9/24/09 - Author Stephanie Meyer is preparing a movie version of her book The Host.  Variety reported that Meyer's novel is a love story set in the near future on Earth, which has been assimilated by an alien species of benevolent parasites that call themselves "Souls." One such soul, the Wanderer, is fused with a dying human named Melanie Stryder, in an attempt to locate the last pocket of surviving humans on Earth.  Meyer supposedly turned down several offers for The Host until she responded to Andrew Niccol's involvement and the producers' strong vision and collaborative spirit.

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