Several months ago I hinted at a big movie deal in the works, but the paperwork and studios grind very slowly.  But we can finally announce a major feature film option on my eco-thriller ILL WIND, written with Doug Beason, to Fox Studios.

It is the largest oil spill in history: a supertanker crashes into the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay. Desperate to avert environmental damage (as well as the PR disaster), the multinational oil company releases an untested designer oil-eating microbe to break up the spill.

What the company didn’t realize is that their microbe propagates through the air . . . and it mutates to consume anything made of petrocarbons: oil, gasoline, synthetic fabrics, plastics of all kinds. And when every piece of plastic begins to dissolve, it’s too late. . . .

ILL WIND is at Fox Features with executive producer Steve Asbell, with a script to be written by Dr. Harry Kloor and Rantz Hosely, in a deal set up by Kloor’s Jupiter 9 Productions. Fox anticipates it will be produced as a blockbuster eco-disaster thriller based on our 1995 novel from Tor/Forge Books.  ILL WIND is currently available in all eBook formats for $4.99. WordFire Press will soon be reissuing the novel in trade paperback format.

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In other film & TV news, actress/producer Marisol Nichols has optioned the Dan Shamble, Zombie PI novels and stories for development as a TV series; I’ve finished a detailed treatment and it is currently being shown to several networks.

And don’t forget, only one week remaining in the Cosmic SF Bundle from storybundle.com. Name your own price for nine big science fiction books by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason, Mike Stackpole, Brandon Sanderson, Mike Resnick, Anne McCafffrey and Jody Lynn Nye, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Frank Herbert, Jay Lake and Ken Scholes, Peter J. Wacks.