A timely TRAVELER finds a home at Universal

Based on novel by first-time author

By Patrick Sauriol     July 29, 2004
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Universal Pictures has stepped up and bought the film rights to a forthcoming science fiction novel by a first-time author. The first in an intended trilogy, John Twelvehocks's THE TRAVELER sold the book to Doubleday Publishing where it attracted the attention of screenwriters Carlo Bernard and Doug Miro. The writers took it to producer Kathleen Kennedy, and Kennedy and her producing partner Frank Marshall are now set to develop the property for Universal, with Bernard and Miro as exective producers.

THE TRAVELER looks at the history of the world as an ongoing struggle between two groups, the Travelers and the Tabulas. The primary characters in the book are two brothers and a young woman who are trying to avoid detection by the agents of the Tabulas.

"We were immediately struck by the book," Bernard is quoted as saying to The Hollywood Reporter. "The author did a really great job of creating a world that is at once recognizable and another world that supersedes it."


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