Fox 2000 has won the rights to British author Catherine Fisher's novel, Incarceron, and will turn it into a big screen adaptation.

The book was released in the UK in 2007 and has just made the New York Times Bestsellers List. The sequel, Sapphique, was released in the UK in 2008 and is due Stateside in January 2011. Undoubtedly, Fox is hoping to turn the young-adult dystopian fantasy into a film franchise. No directors or writers are yet attached to the project.

Here is the book's official synopsis: Incarceron is a prison so vast that it contains not only cells, but also metal forests, dilapidated cities, and vast wilderness. Finn, a seventeen-year-old prisoner, has no memory of his childhood and is sure that he came from Outside Incarceron. Very few prisoners believe that there is an Outside, however, which makes escape seems impossible. And then Finn finds a crystal key that allows him to communicate with a girl named Claudia. She claims to live Outside—she is the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, and doomed to an arranged marriage. Finn is determined to escape the prison and Claudia believes she can help him. But they don't realize that there is more to Incarceron than meets the eye, and escape will take their greatest courage and cost more than they know. Because Incarceron is alive.


Georgine Waller

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